Article 50WYJ The tech execs who don't agree with 'soul-stealing' coronavirus safety measures

The tech execs who don't agree with 'soul-stealing' coronavirus safety measures

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Julia Carrie Wong in Oakland and Daniel Strauss in
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'If we wish to maintain our productivity, we need to continue working in [our] offices,' one CEO told his staff in an email

Michael Saylor does not often send all-staff emails to the more than 2,000 employees at Microstrategy, a business intelligence firm headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia. So the chief executive's 3,000-word missive on Monday afternoon with the subject line My Thoughts on Covid-19 got his employees' attention.

"It is soul-stealing and debilliating [sic] to embrace the notion of social distancing & economic hibernation," Saylor wrote in an impassioned argument against adopting the aggressive responses to the coronavirus pandemic that public health authorities are advising. "If we wish to maintain our productivity, we need to continue working in [our] offices."

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