Elon Musk is making more job cuts at Tesla. On Sunday night, the company sent out more layoff notices, according to workers who shared about it on social media.
This means that Tesla workers are now getting layoff notices for the fourth week in a row. At least seven Tesla employees said they got layoff notices on Sunday.
“After seeing my team getting smaller every week since mid-April, I got the unfortunate email on Sunday afternoon,” one Tesla worker wrote on LinkedIn.
Another worker posted a screenshot of her layoff email on LinkedIn, showing her last day of work as May 5.
A Tesla spokesperson didn’t respond to a request for comment before this article was published.
Workers at Tesla have been feeling uneasy because of the constant layoffs. Many are looking for jobs outside of the company.
“I keep waiting for Elon to send another email and tell us they’re finally done firing people,” said one current Tesla worker, who didn’t want to be named. “We need some closure or a sign that we can stop worrying about losing our jobs.”
Since Elon Musk announced on April 14 that Tesla was cutting over 10% of its workforce, workers have been getting layoff notices in waves. Musk said the cuts were because of “duplication of roles and job functions in certain areas.” Soon after that, impacted employees started receiving termination notices. Some employees only found out their jobs were gone when they couldn’t get into a Tesla building.
In the following weeks, Tesla laid off workers from different teams, including recruiters, marketers, and the Supercharging team.
Musk reportedly told executives last week that the company needed to be “absolutely hard core about headcount.”
Six executives have left Tesla in the past month. Two executives resigned on the same day Tesla announced its first round of cuts. Drew Baglino and Rohan Patel said they left Tesla because of big changes happening at the company.
Before the layoffs, Tesla had over 140,000 workers globally. Notices filed by Tesla under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act show that thousands of workers have already been let go at its California and Texas sites.
These recent layoffs come as Tesla is facing lower demand for its electric cars. The company reported fewer deliveries than expected in April.
