Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a “super bad feeling” about the economy and wants to cut around 10% of work in an electric car maker, he said in an email to the executives on Thursday seen by Reuters. The message came two days after the richest person in the world told employees to return to work or leave the company. Tesla employs around 100,000 people at the end of 2021, according to the annual Secretary Submission. Tesla is not immediately available for comments.

In an email entitled “Pause of All Recruitment throughout the World,” Musk said he has “super bad feelings” about the economy.

On Tuesday, Musk told staff to return to work or leave the company, a request that had faced pushbacks in Germany where the company had a new factory.

“Everyone in Tesla is required to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week,” Musk wrote in the email.

“If you don’t appear, we will assume you have resigned.”

Musk was also involved on Thursday in a Twitter fight with Australian Billionaire Tech and Atlassian Co-Founder PLC Scott Farquhar, who mocked the direction in a series of tweets as “like something from the 1950s”.

Musk Tweeted: “Recession to Serve Vital Economic Cleaning Functions” In response to Tweet by Farquhar who encouraged Tesla employees to look at a distant work position.

At the end of May, when asked by Twitter users whether the economy approached the recession, Musk said, “Yes, but this is actually a good thing. It’s been too long to shower stupid money. Some bankruptcy needs to occur.” (Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin Editing by John Stonestreet and Mark Potter)