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At Tesla you have to have your shirt on to work at Elon Musk’s company, and as an example is what happens in Shanghai. The factory in that country restarted production amid the COVID lockdown and put strict measures in place for staff operating in a so-called closed-loop system, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

Workers will be required to stay at the factory for several days and Tesla Shanghai will provide each employee with a sleeping bag and mattress, a memo sent to staff shows. And in the absence of a bedroom, workers will be required to sleep on the floor in a designated area.

According to the memorandum, other spaces for showering, entertaining (both still to be completed) and for the catering service.

In The document also describes that all employees will have to undergo a nucleic acid test daily for the first three days, check their temperature twice a day and wash their hands at least four times a day, twice in the morning and twice in the morning. more in the afternoon.

Workers will receive three meals and 400 yuan (61 approximately dollars) per day, although the amount will depend on the position of each person, said one of the sources who asked to remain anonymous.

In Shanghai, after the strict closure by anti-COVID lockdown, officials have encouraged businesses to restart l to production that was stopped through the use of closed-loop systems in which workers live in their factories.

In response to the call, some 600 companies have restarted operations, including Quanta Computer Inc., which makes laptops for Apple, and Tesla is joining the list.

The electric vehicle assembly plant told some employees to prepare to enter the closed circuit system that began on April 17, after a suspension of activities in Shanghai that the authorities ordered to try to contain the COVID outbreak.

To implement the closed circuit system, Tesla had to request a special certificate to move its employees Given the current strict restrictions on the city’s residential complexes, the company arranged shuttle buses for employees who were on call to take them back to the plant.

Only staff residing in residential complexes of lower risk and those who have a complete vaccination schedule (two doses) will be able to re-enter, joining the close to 400 employees who are already in the plant.

The last closed-cycle workers entered the factory after midnight and are expected to work under this scheme until May 1, always depending on the health prevention policies dictated by the authorities.

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