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on June 18, according to foreign media reports, insiders confirmed that on Thursday local time, the American electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla started a new round of layoffs, and some hourly workers of the product sales and distribution teams in North America were cut

elonmusk, CEO of Tesla, sent an email to all employees of the company two weeks ago, focusing on layoffs. Musk said in an e-mail to all employees of the company on June 3 that "Tesla will reduce the number of salaried employees by 10% because we think the current economic environment is" very bad ", because we already have a surplus of employees in many fields."

on June 4, musk responded to the statement about Tesla's employment plan in the next 12 months on twitter. He said: "the total number of people will still increase, but the number of people with annual salary / fixed salary should remain stable." However, Tesla's latest round of layoffs seems to indicate that Musk's layoffs are not only for salaried employees with fixed wages, but also for hourly workers

previously, musk told senior executives that the company needed to cut 10% of its workforce and suspend global recruitment due to his "super bad feeling" about the economic situation

according to media reports, SpaceX recently dismissed some employees who sent open letters criticizing Musk's behavior; At the twitter staff meeting, musk also hinted that if the acquisition of personal social media Twitter is completed, the company may lay off employees, and said that Twitter "needs to keep healthy" financially

the source confirmed that Tesla's latest round of layoffs mainly included hourly employees of Tesla's North American sales and delivery team. At the same time, the company is trying to cope with the delivery tide at the end of this quarter and will raise the price of electric vehicles in the near future. Just the day before, it was also reported that untrained employees such as Tesla sales department had been pulled in to assist the service department in order to shorten the waiting window for car owners to serve

thinknum alternative data's recent tracking of Tesla's recruitment information shows that the amount of Tesla's recruitment information has decreased by 32% since May, and by 14% since musk initially announced layoffs. A former Tesla employee in Austin, Texas, said in an interview that he had been paid by the hour for more than a year, but the company recently informed him that he had been dismissed. (Chenchen)