SA businesses buy Tesla Powerwalls for employees working from home

[Jamie McKane]

SA businesses buy Tesla Powerwalls for employees working from home

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and the return of load-shedding in South Africa, companies are buying Tesla Powerwalls for employees to enable them to work from home without interruption.

A Tesla Powerwall is a self-contained battery and inverter system that can keep crucial appliances and other electrical devices powered in the event of a power outage or rolling blackouts implemented by Eskom.

 

[Fjorko]

Mind disclosing these company names?. I'd like to apply to work there please.

 

[TheChamp]

Mind disclosing these company names?. I'd like to apply to work there please.

These Tesla Powerwall stories are becoming too legendary.

 

[LightningSux]

Mind disclosing these company names?. I'd like to apply to work there please.

One of them is probably Eskom

 

[RandomGeek]

"As a result, they have turned to Tesla Powerwall products to ensure their employees remain connected and productive, even when the power goes out."

Let me guess - only Execs are getting these, and not the rank-and-file staff right?

 

[JohnStarr]

"As a result, they have turned to Tesla Powerwall products to ensure their employees remain connected and productive, even when the power goes out."

Let me guess - only Execs are getting these, and not the rank-and-file staff right?

Come on, the execs make the decisions. It's surely not up to the peons below them who actually do the graft to help keep the company going! ;-)

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Clearly working for the wrong company - oh feck, not working from home either.

 

[RandomGeek]

Come on, the execs make the decisions. It's surely not up to the peons below them who actually do the graft to help keep the company going! ;-)

Let us take a para-statal:

1. Buy each Director and CxO a PowerWall using company funds
2. Next month, Directors and CxOs get kicked out
3. They keep PowerWalls due to lack of claw-back agreements
4. Profit

How is my thought process - accurate?

 

[Thor]

Mind disclosing these company names?. I'd like to apply to work there please.

This.

 

[neoprema]

"Companies are using tax money from PPE Tenderpreneurships to buy Tesla Powerwalls..."

 

[JohnStarr]

Let us take a para-statal:

1. Buy each Director and CxO a PowerWall using company funds
2. Next month, Directors and CxOs get kicked out
3. They keep PowerWalls due to lack of claw-back agreements
4. Profit

How is my thought process - accurate?

Sorry, I was being sarcastic. I should've actually put that in.
Execs sit at the top and pretty much, for the most part, don't have a clue what happens below them. But reap the rewards of everyone else's hard work below them.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Seriously, this has to be the most retarded advertorial I've seen in a long time.

A company is going to spend R150k to keep an employee online for 2 or 4 hours, when they can achieve the same thing for considerably less if they wanted to fund it (or like most companies they make it the employees problem to solve)

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Sorry, I was being sarcastic. I should've actually put that in.
Execs sit at the top and pretty much, for the most part, don't have a clue what happens below them. But reap the rewards of everyone else's hard work below them.

At some point they would have been grunts too. Nobody just gets put at the top unless you have government connections...

 

[JohnStarr]

At some point they would have been grunts too. Nobody just gets put at the top unless you have government connections...

They would...but execs look out for themselves for the most part.

 

[JohnStarr]

SA businesses buy Tesla Powerwalls for employees working from home

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and the return of load-shedding in South Africa, companies are buying Tesla Powerwalls for employees to enable them to work from home without interruption.

A Tesla Powerwall is a self-contained battery and inverter system that can keep crucial appliances and other electrical devices powered in the event of a power outage or rolling blackouts implemented by Eskom.

Sorry, which companies? How many employees?

 

[Johand]

Might just be a tax thing companies and employees take advantage of. A power wall will be much more affordable if you can structure it in a way to pay with pretax money! "No bonus - but here is a powerwall type thing."

 

[Dan C]

Yikes, don't their laptop batteries last at least 4 hours ?

 

[ToxicBunny]

Yikes, don't their laptop batteries last at least 4 hours ?

Companies cheap out on laptops and buy Powerwalls instead.

 

[system32]

I work for cheapskates...
We only got

and 20Mbps fibre.
UPS is enough to keep Laptop + 21" screen + Fibre + WiFi AP's + Switch going for over 4 hours.

Spoiler: Actually

Just joking, actually, I'm grateful to still have a job in this f***k economy

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Yikes, don't their laptop batteries last at least 4 hours ?

I'm lucky if my laptop lasts a half hour on it's battery, Lenovo saw fit, to equip it with a "lite" battery ...