The electric vehicle maker will chop 2,700 jobs in the Bay Area, according to official WARN notices.
FREMONT — Tesla has decided to slash thousands of jobs in the Bay Area, including layoffs at the company’s electric vehicle factory in Fremont, staffing reductions that are poised to jolt the region’s employment market.
Layoffs are also planned at multiple other locations in Fremont and Palo Alto, the filings with the EDD show. None of the layoffs affected unionized workers, according to the WARN notices. The job cuts were all described by Tesla as permanent.— Lathrop , 515 job cuts.Tesla is cutting 3,281 job cuts in California, including the Bay Area layoffs.
During the conference call, Tesla executives at one point described the company as a tree and at another point as an evolving organism, adding that the time had simply arrived for Tesla to conduct job cuts. “It is time to reorganize the company for the next phase of growth and you really need to reorganize it, just like a human when we start off with one cell and kind of zygote, kind of blastocyst and you start growing arms and legs and briefly, you have a tail,” Musk said.“You shed the tail, hopefully,” Musk responded. “A company is kind of like a creature growing. And if you don’t reorganize it for different phases of growth, it will fail.
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