'working The Weekend Is A Superpower': Elon Musk Says Doge Is Working '120 Hour' Weeks While 'bureaucratic Opponents' Work 40

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) became a impermanent authorities connection connected January 20 done President Donald Trump's executive order. In conscionable 2 weeks, Musk has led nan conception to adopt a Silicon Valley-like startup mentality towards its activity hours, pinch Musk precocious bragging that DOGE is putting successful extra-long hours arsenic it tries to trim backmost connected authorities bureaucracy.

In a Sunday position connected X, Musk wrote that "DOGE is moving 120 hour[s] a week. Our bureaucratic opponents optimistically activity 40 hours a week. That is why they are losing truthful fast."

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The clip prior, Musk wrote connected X that "Very less successful nan bureaucracy really activity nan weekend, truthful it's for illustration nan opposing squad conscionable leaves nan conception for 2 days! Working nan play is simply a superpower."

A 120-hour workweek intends 17 hours and 8 minutes of activity each day, including Saturday and Sunday. According to accusation for December from nan U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, nan emblematic U.S. worker useful an mean of 34.3 hours per week.

DOGE is moving 120 hr a week. Our bureaucratic opponents optimistically activity 40 hours a week. That is why they are losing truthful fast. https://t.co/dXtrL5rj1K

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2025

DOGE isn't nan first connection wherever Musk has implemented workweeks longer than average. When Musk took powerfulness of Twitter successful October 2022, he told portion that they should expect to activity 80 hours per week and personification little perks for illustration free food. Less than half of Twitter's 4,000 labour chose to stay, pinch nan mostly opting for 3 months' severance instead.

It isn't conscionable Twitter. Workers astatine Tesla, wherever Elon Musk is CEO, personification reported sleeping connected nan level aft 12-hour shifts aft moving six aliases 7 days per week.

Musk elaborated connected really he put successful nan hours connected an April section of nan podcast, In Good Company, hosted by Nicolai Tangen, CEO of $1.6 trillion Norges Bank.

"I've done many, galore stretches of 100-hour weeks, wherever astir six hours per clip is sleeping," Musk said. "I would not impulse that. That's for emergencies."

Musk said that he put successful those 100-hour weeks during nan early days of his startups erstwhile he would slumber nether his table and activity "every waking hour." He defined those days arsenic stretches of ultra-hard activity and said he could prolong nan sprint for a less years astatine a time.

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Roi Ginat, CEO of Endless AI, told Business Insider that while he routinely useful 85 hours a week, moving a squad "too difficult for excessively long" is simply a look for "fatigue and burnout."

"I judge that Elon's tweet is astir an effort, not a caller modular astatine DOGE," Ginat stated.

DOGE is not a authorities agency but a group created to activity alongside nan White House to bring down costs. Musk is aiming to trim astatine slightest $1 trillion from nan nationalist money done DOGE. It's unclear really galore group are moving alongside him, but a December announcement from Trump shows that Katie Miller, nan erstwhile lawman spot caput for nan Department of Homeland Security during Trump's first term, is information of nan DOGE team.