Elon Musk has issued marching orders to Twitter workers that he wants them either marching back to the office or out the door.

The order was contained in a memo to Twitter staff issued at 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Platformer managing editor Zoë Schiffer tweeted.

“NEW: Apple is tracking employee attendance (via badge records) and will give employees escalating warnings if they don't come in 3x per week. ALSO: Elon Musk sent Twitter employees an email at 2:30am saying the 'office is not optional' and noting SF was half empty yesterday,” she wrote.

NEW: Apple is tracking employee attendance (via badge records) and will give employees escalating warnings if they don't come in 3x per week.

ALSO: Elon Musk sent Twitter employees an email at 2:30am saying the "office is not optional" and noting SF was half empty yesterday.

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 22, 2023

For months, Musk has been pushing for Twitter workers to return to the office.

Schiffer followed that up with a series of tweets summarizing a memo from Musk to Twitter staff about the state of the company.

Because Twitter was previously about 4 months away from running out of money. Now, he says, the financial incentives of employees should align with the company. 2/

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 25, 2023

Like SpaceX, X Corp (aka Twitter) will do periodic liquidity events so people can sell. 4/

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 25, 2023

Musk says Twitter is on the path of an inverse startup. 5/5

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 25, 2023

Schiffer noted that Musk is not the only executive pushing for employees to be back in the office. Apple is joining that trend as well.

“At Apple, some orgs are saying failure to comply could result in termination, but that doesn't appear to be a company-wide policy,” she wrote.

At Apple, some orgs are saying failure to comply could result in termination, but that doesn't appear to be a company-wide policy.

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 22, 2023

As noted by Fox Business, the pandemic-era turn to remote work is ending as companies increasingly bring workers back to the office.

A Bureau of Labor Statistics report issued last week shows that as of a 2022 business survey, 72.5 percent of businesses were not using remote work options, up from 60.1 percent in 2021.

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The report said 16.4 percent of businesses had some but not all workers teleworking, down from 29.8 percent in 2021.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.