Why is Elon Musk so obsessed with ‘ghost employees’?

Elon Musk delivers remarks during a Cabinet meeting held by President Trump at the White House on Feb. 26. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images North America

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Shortly after Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter in 2022, he sent executives on a mission: Conduct a payroll audit.

Musk wanted to verify that all of the social media platform’s employees were “real humans,” a request that perplexed executives at the company. Nonetheless, managers were tasked with confirming that some of their direct reports were indeed alive.

“As if there’s just people collecting paychecks and not doing anything, as if

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