The Tesla founder is causing confusion with tweets about the company’s future HR policy.
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san francisco The total number of employees at the electric car manufacturer Tesla is expected to increase over the next twelve months. This was announced by Tesla boss Elon Musk on Twitter on Saturday.
“Total headcount will increase, but headcount should stay pretty much the same,” Musk wrote in response to an unverified Twitter post that “predicted” an increase in the company’s headcount.
What exactly Musk wanted to say with this Twitter reply remained unclear.
In an internal email to executives on Thursday, Musk wrote that he had a “super bad feeling” about economic development and that Tesla would therefore have to reduce its workforce by around ten percent.
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In another email to employees on Friday, Musk said Tesla would cut headcount by 10% because the company was “overstaffed in many areas.” However, the number of “hourly employees” will increase. On Wall Street, Tesla lost up to 9.2 percent over the course of Friday.
At the end of 2021, the company employed around 100,000 people worldwide. The carmaker is currently ramping up production at its new plant in Grünheide, Germany, and has advertised hundreds of jobs.
Worldwide there are around 5,000 open Tesla jobs on the LinkedIn job platform, from salespeople in Tokyo to mechatronics technicians in Berlin to IT specialists in Palo Alto.
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