- Tesla’s latest round of job cuts occurred on Sunday evening, May 5th.
- This marks the fourth consecutive week of layoffs at the electric vehicle maker.
- The cuts have left remaining employees on edge, waiting for job security to return.
Another week, another round of layoffs at Tesla as even more employees report receiving termination letters. This is just the latest example of the automaker shrinking its workforce: Employees are on edge after four straight weeks of cuts.
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The layoffs apparently began Sunday evening, and employees quickly took to LinkedIn to share their stories, including Cheryl Cai, a UX designer who previously worked at Apple. Although she described herself as an “eternal optimist,” she conveyed the sense of impending doom she felt in the weeks leading up to her release.
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“After watching my team being phased out week by week since mid-April, I received the dreaded ‘Hello Employees’ email this Sunday afternoon,” Cai wrote. “I have become another statistic in another round of mass layoffs.”
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Employees report feeling nervous about the repeated layoffs. Tesla CEO Elon Musk initially said the cuts were due to a “duplication of roles and job functions,” but the company’s entire Supercharger team has since been laid off and employees only discovered they were unemployed after their Key cards that failed gave them access to their previous workplaces.
“I keep waiting for Elon to send us another email and tell us they’re finally done laying people off,” another employee told Business Insider. “We need some level of closure or a sign that we no longer have to worry about losing our jobs.”
Additionally, Tesla has also lost at least six executives, including Drew Baglino, its senior vice president of powertrain and electrical engineering, Rohan Patel, its vice president of public policy and business development, and Allie Arebalo, its human resources director. In the case of the former two, senior employees said they had left the company, but the circumstances of Arebalo’s departure remain unclear.
After a difficult start to the year, Tesla is working energetically to reduce costs. The automaker fell short of expectations in the first quarter and its share prices have fallen 26 percent so far this year as increasing competition in China and other markets threatens its dominance in the electric vehicle market.
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