Leaked email reveals Tesla employees were coming to work with COVID-19 symptoms

• A Tesla exec expressed concern in an email about employees coming to work with COVID-19 symptoms.
• She did not say how many people had done so.
• She urged employees to work from home, if possible, until vaccine availability widened.

A Tesla human-resources executive expressed concern in a February 9 email about employees who were coming to work after displaying COVID-19 symptoms or coming into contact with someone who had tested positive for the disease. Insider reviewed a copy of the message.

“Recently, we have had a number of people come on-site, even though they were showing COVID-19 symptoms or were knowingly exposed to a COVID-19-positive person,” Valerie Workman, Tesla’s vice president of people, wrote. 

“When you come into work despite having a COVID-19 exposure or COVID-19 symptoms, you are putting everyone’s lives at risk,” Workman said later in the email.