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Elon Musk owned Tesla lays off nearly 200 Autopilot workers in California: Report

As recently as last week, Musk had outlined plans to cut 10 per cent of salaried staff, but said he would be increasing hourly jobs

PGurus Newsdesk

June 29, 2022

As recently as last week, Musk had outlined plans to cut 10 per cent of salaried staff, but said he would be increasing hourly jobs

Tesla lays off workers who only just started and withdraws employment offers

Tech giant owned by Elon Musk, Tesla has reportedly shown exit door to approximately 200 workers from its Autopilot team and closed an office in California as per media reports. As recently as last week, Musk had outlined plans to cut 10 percent of salaried staff, but said he would be increasing hourly jobs, the report said.

Tesla has gutted the data annotation team working on Autopilot, laying off nearly 200 employees and shutting down the San Mateo, California office where they worked. According to Bloomberg, the majority of those who were let go were hourly workers, said the people, who asked not to be identified as discussing private information.

Tesla started laying off salaried employees after Musk’s announcement, which would result in reducing Tesla’s total headcount by roughly 3.5 percent. Recently, a report said that Tesla employs more than 1,00,000 people across its facilities.

In a LinkedIn post, Iain Abshier had said that he had “a gut punch” that he would be included in the Tesla layoffs after just two weeks of work.

Another fired Tesla employee Robert Belovodskij wrote that he was notified that the offer he signed to come back to Tesla full-time has been “rescinded due to the current hiring freeze and 10 percent workforce reduction”.

[With Inputs from IANS]

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