Will Tesla actually cut 10% of its workforce over the next few years as Elon Musk specifically said? At the moment it is difficult to answer this question, but in the meantime the South African manager is starting to move in this direction: over 200 employees have been committed to the Autopilot automated driving technology front fired, following the closure of a facility in California. Surprisingly, most of those who were let go were hourly workers.
At the heart of the matter are the teams deployed at the San Mateo headquarters, which have been employed in evaluating customer vehicle data relating to the driver assistance features of the Autopilot system and in carrying out the so-called data labeling: Many of the staff members were data annotation specialists. Before the cuts, the office had about 350 employees: as mentioned, more than half of these were laid off, while some of the others had already been moved to a nearby facility in the past few weeks. Recall that Tesla, now headquartered in Austin, Texas, has grown over the years to reach approximately 100,000 employees worldwide, and by building new factories in Austin and Berlin: a figure, however. exaggeratedly high according to Elon Muskwhich has promised cuts for tens of thousands of workers globally.
Tesla’s CEO himself in recent weeks had said that the layoffs would be necessary in a increasingly shaky economic environment, clarifying that about 10% of salaried employees would lose their jobs in the next three months, although the overall headcount could be higher in a year. The cuts announced in the San Mateo facility, therefore, just might the first in a series of steps that will be moved in this direction: Tesla’s workforce is shaking, the layoffs have started.
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