{"id":27605,"date":"2024-04-16T06:03:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T06:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/tesla-lays-off-more-than-10-of-its-workforce-2\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T06:03:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T06:03:19","slug":"tesla-lays-off-more-than-10-of-its-workforce-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/tesla-lays-off-more-than-10-of-its-workforce-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla lays off more than 10% of its workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 16 \u2013 <strong>Tesla will lay off more than 10% of its global electric vehicle workforce.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a memo, first reported by news website Electrek, billionaire owner Elon Musk told staff there was nothing he hated more, \u201cbut it must be done\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s largest vehicle-maker by market value had 140,473 employees globally as of December, according to its latest annual report.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla has not responded to the BBC\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have done a thorough review of the organisation and made the difficult decision to reduce our headcount by more than 10% globally,\u201d said the email from Mr Musk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing I hate more, but it must be done. This will enable us to be lean, innovative and hungry for the next growth phase cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Tesla employee who had been told he was being let go told the BBC he had subsequently been locked out of his emails, as had all other staff being laid off.<\/p>\n<p>One of the executive team, Andrew \u201cDrew\u201d Baglino, said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday he had made the \u201cdifficult decision\u201d to leave the firm after 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Baglino had served as senior vice president of Tesla\u2019s powertrain and energy engineering team since 2019, according to Tesla\u2019s website.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 16 \u2013 Tesla will lay off more than 10% of its global electric vehicle workforce. In a memo, first reported by news website Electrek, billionaire owner Elon Musk told staff there was nothing he hated more, \u201cbut it must be done\u201d. The world\u2019s largest vehicle-maker by market value had 140,473 employees globally as of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}