Television personality and Sports Illustrated cover model is weighing in on remote working and let’s just say she’s not here for it!
In a recent interview with Footwear News, Stewart told the magazine how hard she was working even during COVID-19. The 81-year-old said she worked five days a week from her home in Bedford, Connecticut while filming shows.
“You can’t possibly get everything done working three days a week in the office and two days remotely. Look at the success of France with their stupid … you know, off for August, blah blah blah,” Stewart told the magazine. “That’s not a very thriving country. Should America go down the drain because people don’t want to go back to work?”
While comparing the US, she said, “Look at the success of France with their stupid…you know, off for August, blah blah blah,” Stewart said. “That’s not a very thriving country. Should America go down the drain because people don’t want to go back to work?” The celebrity cook explained. She went on to say that she’s on a “rampage” for people to get back into the office and work in person.
Now, Miss Stewart is the only celeb who has publicly shared that they’re against remote working.
Earlier this year, Elon Musk encouraged folks to “get off your work-from-home bullshit.” He made those comments in an interview aired on CNBC. Musk called remote work “morally wrong” and argued it was unfair to those workers who can’t work from home.
“The whole work-from-home thing, it’s sort of like, I think it’s, like, there are some exceptions, but I kind of think that the whole notion of work-from-home is a bit like, you know, the fake Marie Antoinette quote, ‘Let them eat cake,’” Musk said in the wide-ranging interview back in May.
“It’s like, it’s like really? You’re gonna work from home and you’re gonna make everyone else who made your car come work in the factory? You’re gonna make people who make your food that gets delivered – they can’t work from home? The people that come fix your house? They can’t work from home, but you can? Does that seem morally right? That’s messed up.”
“The laptop class is living in la la land. Look at the cars,” he said, referencing Tesla’s factory. “Are people working from home here? Of course not. The people [that are] building the cars, servicing the cars, building houses, fixing houses, or making the food, making all the things that people consume—it’s messed up to assume that they have to go to work but you don’t. [Why] is that? It’s not just a productivity thing. I think it’s morally wrong.”
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