Billionaire genius, Twitter chaos agent, and part-time Mars enthusiast Elon Musk is back with another spicy take. This time, he’s not talking about Tesla, SpaceX, or Dogecoin—but DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency), a government body that he claims works 120 hours a week. Yes, you read that right—120 hours in a 168-hour week. Sleep? Never heard of it!
And just in case you thought he was joking, Musk doubled down on X (formerly Twitter), calling working weekends a “superpower” and mocking government employees who stick to the standard 40-hour grind.
“The opposing team just leaves the field for 2 days!”
he wrote, probably while sipping his 17th coffee of the day.
120-Hour Workweek? Internet Calls It ‘Pure Madness’
Predictably, the internet had thoughts.
- One user labeled Musk a “terrible boss”, questioning how employees can even function at that pace.
- Another pointed out that DOGE’s website is still a ghost town, despite the team supposedly grinding harder than a college student before finals.
- One sarcastic reply did the math: “If they take two days off, that means they’re working 24 hours straight for the other five days. So… DOGE is staffed by aliens and robots?”
- A rare Musk fan jumped in, calling him a “hero” in the fight against bureaucracy, comparing him to Napoleon with dragon energy. (Okay buddy, let’s not get carried away.)
The Musk-ian Vision: Work Until You Drop?
Elon Musk was appointed by Donald Trump to lead DOGE, which aims to eliminate inefficiency and corruption in government (ironic, considering nobody knows what the department actually does yet). The goal? Streamline government operations by July 4 next year—a patriotic deadline, marking 250 years since the Declaration of Independence.
After the US election results, Musk even invited applications for DOGE, specifying that he wants “super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries” willing to work 80+ hours a week on cost-cutting tasks. (Translation: Work all day, every day, for a paycheck and Elon’s approval.)
Musk Joins the ‘Work More’ Brigade
Musk’s 120-hour workweek comment comes at a time when corporate bosses are obsessed with long hours.
- Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy had earlier stirred controversy by calling for a 70-hour workweek, making every IT worker shudder.
- L&T chairman SN Subrahmanyan went even further, suggesting 90-hour workweeks, sparking a backlash from exhausted employees everywhere.
Musk, of course, took things to the next level. 120 hours? Why not just live at the office and charge rent?
Whatever the case, Musk thrives on pushing boundaries—whether it’s colonizing Mars, making self-driving cars mainstream, or now, attempting to redefine how much humans can work before they collapse. His philosophy is simple: more hours = more results, but history suggests that sleepless, overworked employees aren’t exactly the secret ingredient to success.
While some see him as a visionary, inspiring a next-level hustle culture, others see him as an out-of-touch billionaire romanticizing exhaustion. The real question is—is this the future of work, or just another episode in the Elon Musk productivity saga?
