The Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk (DOGE) became a temporary government organization through President Donald Trump’s executive order. In just two weeks, Musk led the department to adopting metality as Silicon Valley with a similar startup metality towards working hours, and Musk recently boasted that Doge gives extremely long hours because he is trying to reduce government bureaucracy.
In Sunday’s X post, Musk wrote that “DOGE works 120 hours a week. Obercratic opponents optimistically work 40 hours a week. Therefore, it loses so fast. ”
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The day before, Musk wrote on X that “very little of the bureaucracy of news reports works at the weekend, so it’s as if the comprehensive team has left the field for 2 days! Work on the weekend is a superpower. ”
The 120 -hour working week means 17 hours and eight minutes of work every day, including Saturday and Sunday. According to Data for December from the US Office for Labor Statistics, a typical US employee works on average 34.3 hours a week.
DOGE works 120 hours a week. Our bureaucratic opponents work optimistically on the weekend of 40 hours. Therefore, he loses so fast. https://t.co/dxttrl5rj1k
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 2 February 2025
DOGE is not the first organization where Musk implemented the workweks line. When Musk took control of Twitter in October 2022, he told employees that they should jump to work 80 hours over the weekend and receive fewer benefits like free food. Less than half of the 4,000 Twitter employees will remain, most of which decided for three months of severance.
It’s not just Twitter. Tesla workers, where Elon Musk CEO is, reported that after a 12 -hour shift after work six or seven days a week, sleep is on the floor.
Musk elaborates how the clock on the April episode of the podcast, In a good companyNicolai Tangen, the CEO of $ 1.6 trillion USD Norges Bank.
“That’s why I am many, many sections of 100 hours of weeks where about six hours a day sleeping,” Musk said. “I wouldn’t recommend it. This is for extraordinary events.”
Musk said he gave those 100 hours in the first days of his startups when he slept under the table and worked “every hour of wakeful”. He defined these days as sections of ultra hard work and said he could keep the sprint for several years.
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King Ginat, the CEO of the infinite AI, said Business Insider that while routines work 85 hours a week, the work “too hard for too long” is a recipe for “fatigue and burnout.
“I believe Elon’s Tweet is about effort, not a new standard in DOGE,” Ginat said.
DOGE is not a government agency, but a group created to work with the White House to reduce costs. Musk likes to reduce at least $ 1 trillion from the federal budget DOGE. It is not clear how many people work with him, but the December designation from Trump shows that Katie Miller, a representative of the press secretaries for the Ministry of Internal Security during the first term of Trump, is part of the DOGE team.
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