Tesla announced mass layoffs, approximately 10 percent of all employees will be out of a job

According to an internal e-mail obtained by the portal Electrek, Tesla is reportedly planning a major cut in the number of employees. After they are published a few weeks ago for the first time since 2020 “year-over-year” padec prodaje avtomobilov, bo brez službe ostalo približno 10 % zaposlenih pri Tesli. To pomeni vsaj 14.000 od 140.473 zaposlenih, kolikor jih je Tesla uradno prikazala ob zadnji predstavitvi rezultatov. Zaenkrat še ni znano, katere ekipe oz. kateri profili zaposlenih bodo tarča rezov.

“This is absolutely the last on the list of measures that we must take,” je zapisal izvršni direktor Tesle Elon Musk v elektronskem sporočilu, ki ga je objavil Electrek. In a later post on X-u je Musk zapisal, “vsakih 5 let se moramo reorganizirati in podjetje pripraviti na ponovno rast”.

According to reports Bloomberg included in this latest round of layoffs is senior director Drew Bagliano, who is also leaving the company. Baglino confirmed this information on Xu. He has been part of the company for over 18 years, during which time he has held various roles, most recently as head of Tesla's powertrain and powertrain division. Among other things, Electrek noticed that the Tesla branding also disappeared from the X account of one of the key men of the legal department.

Today's (April 17) layoff announcement is the latest in a string of bad news for Tesla. The company has already announced before the quarterly presentation of results, which will be held on April 23, that their estimate of sales during this time period was not accurate. Already in January, however, they announced that sales growth would not be the way they wanted or expected it to be. All this is happening before the preparation for the launch of new vehicle models, and the question is how all this happening will affect Tesla's sales in the future.

Tesla is also reportedly abandoning its plans to produce an affordable Model 2, which would cost around $25,000, as it will instead focus on a new robot taxi. The company is facing increasing pressure from dwindling demand for its electric vehicles, while competition from Chinese manufacturers is intensifying. Last year, Tesla lost the title of the world's largest electric vehicle manufacturer when China's BYD aggressively took over the top spot by producing 3.02 million electric vehicles in the same time period, compared to Tesla's 1.81 million.