By Hyunjoo Jin
SANFRANCISCO -Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a “tremendous unhealthy feeling” concerning the economic system and needs to chop about 10% of jobs on the electrical carmaker, he mentioned in an e mail to executives on Thursday seen by Reuters.
The message got here two days after the world’s richest man informed staff to return to the office or depart the corporate.
Tesla employed round 100,000 folks on the finish of 2021, based on its annual SEC submitting.
Tesla was not instantly out there for remark.
In an e mail titled “pause all hiring worldwide,” Musk mentioned he had a “tremendous unhealthy feeling” concerning the economic system.
On Tuesday, Musk informed employees to return to the office or depart the corporate, a requirement that has already confronted pushback in Germany the place the corporate has a brand new manufacturing facility.
“Everybody at Tesla is required to spend a minimal of 40 hours within the workplace per week,” Musk wrote in that e mail.
“For those who don’t present up, we'll assume you have got resigned.”
Musk additionally engaged on Thursday in a Twitter spat with Australia tech billionaire and Atlassian Plc co-founder Scott Farquhar, who ridiculed the directive in a collection of tweets as being “like one thing out of the Fifties”.
Musk tweeted: “recessions serve an important financial cleaning operate” in response to a tweet by Farquhar who inspired Tesla staff to look into its distant work positions.
In late Could, when requested by a Twitter person whether or not the economic system was approaching a recession, Musk mentioned, “Sure, however that is really an excellent factor. It has been raining cash on fools for too lengthy. Some bankruptcies have to occur.”
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