On June 5, Beijing time, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, said on Saturday that the total number of Tesla employees will increase in the next 12 months, but the number of salaried employees should not change much. Just two days ago, he said in an email that Tesla needed to cut 10% of its workforce.
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An unauthenticated twitter account posted that the number of Tesla employees will increase in the next 12 months. Musk then replied: "the total number of employees will increase, but the number of salaried employees should be fairly stable."
Musk said the total number of employees will increase
Musk said in an email sent to Tesla executives on Thursday that he had a "super bad feeling" about the U.S. economy and that the company needed to cut about 10% of its workforce. Subsequently, in an email to employees on Friday, he said that Tesla would cut only 10% of its salaried employees because there was a surplus of employees in many fields, but the number of hourly workers would increase. The layoff news caused Tesla's share price to plunge 9.2% on Friday.