This billionaire should read deep work, maybe he would attract more talent.
>“I want people who sleep in the office,” says Mr. Alabbar, the founder of the now three-month-old startup. “Want to go walk your dog in the afternoon and all that? I’m not the guy you work for.”
So long as they also have an equal share in the equity... oh wait
I'm giving it 0.1% chance of outcompeting Amazon locally, zero chance globally.
Here's the actual reality: 99% of those 25,000 employees are on normal work schedules, with normal work expectations. There are no organizations of that scale in the US where the employees all work crazy hours and sleep under their desks; quite the opposite, organizations that large always drift toward the middle by necessity (they can't attract tens of thousands of workers in a highly competitive labor market otherwise).
I worked in a factory. It's almost impossible to build a large factory with great work environment.
The US Navy expects officers at sea to only sleep about 5 hours a day. This is implicated in at least 3 incidents of warship collisions.
Elon "pushing" innovation means zero for most sane employees unless paid handsomely and compensated for the loss of "life" (depends on what a person calls life, because I have colleagues who are happiest at the work place and make an effort to stay extra hours; w/o overtime).
So speaking generally, both Elon and this Saudi billionaire are similarly bad employers if they advocate and push for for such unhealthy work-life balance.