On June 5, according to foreign media reports, on Friday local time, a number of foreign media reported that Tesla CEO musk had sent an email entitled "suspending global recruitment" to the company's executives on Thursday, saying that it would cut about 10% of its employees and suspend global recruitment**
In the latest report, foreign media said that after sending a letter to senior executives, musk sent an email to all employees to tell them more details about the layoffs.
At present, some foreign media have obtained the email sent by musk to all employees. They say that musk said in the email that Tesla salaried employees will be cut by about 10% because they have too many employees in many fields.
As a top electric vehicle manufacturer in the world, whether Tesla's layoffs will affect the production of relevant factories and the delivery of electric vehicles has also attracted much attention, especially when the Berlin super factory and Texas super factory have been put into operation one after another, and more employees are needed to steadily improve production capacity.
However, according to Musk's email to all employees, their layoffs will not affect the production of electric vehicles. Musk has emphasized in the email that the layoff does not apply to any employee who actually produces cars, battery packs or installs solar products. This means that Musk's planned layoffs will not involve Tesla's front-line production personnel.
After the layoffs, Tesla still needs a large number of employees to produce and deliver electric vehicles, which means that Tesla needs to provide enough employees for related businesses through other means. Musk mentioned in his email that the number of hourly workers will increase.
While cutting 10% of salaried employees and increasing the number of hourly workers may increase Tesla's overall number of employees. On Musk's active social media, a fan said when interacting with him that Tesla's employees would increase in the next 12 months. Musk said that the overall number of employees would increase, but the number of salaried employees should be relatively stable.
As the CEO of Tesla, musk has made frequent moves in Tesla's employee management recently. Before announcing the layoff, musk also sent a letter to the company's senior executives, requiring employees to work in the office no less than 40 hours a week. If they do not appear, they will be deemed to have resigned.
Tesla has published the total number of employees in relevant documents. According to the documents submitted by Tesla, by December 31 last year, their global full-time employees were 99290, with a significant increase for three consecutive years. However, Tesla did not disclose the specific number of employees in its front-line production, product development, delivery, after-sales and other fields in the relevant documents. Therefore, it is unclear how many employees will be affected by Tesla's layoff of salaried employees.