{"id":37177,"date":"2022-06-05T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T03:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tesla-headcount-will-increase-musk-tweets-after-emailing-staff-about-job-cuts\/"},"modified":"2022-06-05T03:00:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T03:00:55","slug":"tesla-headcount-will-increase-musk-tweets-after-emailing-staff-about-job-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tesla-headcount-will-increase-musk-tweets-after-emailing-staff-about-job-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Headcount Will Increase, Musk Tweets After Emailing Staff About Job Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul class=\"summary-list\">\n<li>Elon Musk tweeted that the &#8220;total headcount would increase&#8221; at Tesla and salaried staff would stay &#8220;fairly flat.&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>Musk&#8217;s comments came after the Tesla CEO sent an email to staff saying he would cut 10% of salaried jobs. <\/li>\n<li>Tesla employed nearly 100,000 staff at the end of 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"inline-newsletter-signup &#10;                        headline-regular loading\" id=\"formContainer\" data-component-type=\"inline-newsletter-module\" data-event-label=\"insider_news\" data-list=\"Insider Today\" data-acq-source=\"newsinlinesignup\">\n<section class=\"inline-newsletter-content\">\n<div class=\"js-loader hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"svg-icon \" version=\"1.1\" role=\"img\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" style=\"enable-background:new 0 0 50 50;\" xml:space=\"preserve\">\n                        <title>Loading<\/title>\n                        <desc>Something is loading.<\/desc>\n                        <path fill=\"#111\" d=\"M43.935,25.145c0-10.318-8.364-18.683-18.683-18.683c-10.318,0-18.683,8.365-18.683,18.683h4.068c0-8.071,6.543-14.615,14.615-14.615c8.072,0,14.615,6.543,14.615,14.615H43.935z\">\n                          <animatetransform attributetype=\"xml\" attributename=\"transform\" type=\"rotate\" from=\"0 25 25\" to=\"360 25 25\" dur=\"0.6s\" repeatcount=\"indefinite\"\/>\n                        <\/path>\n                      <\/svg><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p>After sending an email about job cuts for salaried staff, Tesla CEO Elon Musk seemed to retract his statements in a tweet reply Saturday, writing that the amount of salaried staff may not change drastically. <\/p>\n<p>Twitter account @WholeMarsBlog tweeted that Tesla&#8217;s headcount would increase over the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Musk replied and said that the total number of Tesla employees hired would increase, but that salaried staff &#8220;should be fairly flat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk did not clarify whether or not existing salaried employees would become hourly employees or if new employees would be hired at Tesla.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet blockquote\" data-lang=\"en\" data-cards=\"\" data-conversation=\"\"><p>\u2014Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mims\/statuses\/1533176789022957568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">June 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk said that he had a &#8220;super bad feeling&#8221; regarding the economy in an email titled &#8220;pause all hiring worldwide&#8221; sent to Tesla executives on Friday.  As a result, Musk said he would need to cut 10% of salaried staff, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>Musk wrote that the amount of hourly employees at Tesla would increase.  The Tesla CEO said that the memo did not apply to anyone &#8220;building cars, battery packs or installing solar,&#8221; Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>Two days prior, Musk sent a memo to his executive staff telling them to return to the office or resign, Electrek reported. <\/p>\n<p>Tesla employed 100,000 by the end of last year, according to an SEC filing.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Tesla did not immediately respond to Insider&#8217;s request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk tweeted that the &#8220;total headcount would increase&#8221; at Tesla and salaried staff would stay &#8220;fairly flat.&#8221; Musk&#8217;s comments came after the Tesla CEO sent an email to staff saying he would cut 10% of salaried jobs. Tesla employed nearly 100,000 staff at the end of 2021. Loading Something is loading. After sending an &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tesla-headcount-will-increase-musk-tweets-after-emailing-staff-about-job-cuts\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tesla Headcount Will Increase, Musk Tweets After Emailing Staff About Job Cuts<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/629bf67d7bc6a80018b65c79?width=1200&format=jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}