What's the value of face-to-face meetings, water cooler conversations, and easily observed productivity? It's nearly 2025 and the return to office debate is still raging.

The Tesla billionaire and co-head of the Department of Government Efficiency says he wants workers in the office five days a week.

Follow updates on Trump’s cabinet and staff picks. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-leaders of what President-elect Donald J. Trump has called the Department of Government Efficiency, said on Wednesday that they supported requiring federal employees to work from the office five days a week as part of a broad overhaul of the civil service.

President-elect Trump appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to run the new Department of Government Efficiency

But there’s another way a Trump/Musk mind meld could reshape the space business — and, crucially, affect its competition with China, the U.S.’ main outer-space rival. That road also runs through Musk — via the “ Department of Government Efficiency” commission Trump named him to lead,

TikTok is looking to Elon Musk for insight into the controversial app’s future ahead of Donald Trump’s coming administration. Musk, who is one of the president-elect’s closest confidants, also owns rival platform X.

When the US election was called for Donald Trump, the stock market rose the bond market fell. This suggests the news was seen as implying higher budget deficit and debt numbers in the future