Musk: Tesla employee count to increase, salaried staff to decrease
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The Tesla executive still intends to cut jobs by 10%.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the official opening of the new Tesla electric car manufacturing plant on March 22, 2022 near Gruenheide, Germany (Getty Images)
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, revealed on Saturday that the company's employee count will increase over the next 12 months. However, the number of salaried staff should be little changed (recalling an email sent two days ago indicating that the company will cut jobs by 10%).
"Total headcount will increase, but salaried should be fairly flat," Musk tweeted in a reply to an unverified Twitter account, which stated a prediction of an increase in corporate headcount.
Total headcount will increase, but salaried should be fairly flat
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 4, 2022
On Thursday, Musk said that he had a "super bad feeling" about the US economy, rationalizing his cutting jobs by 10% in his electric vehicle company.
On Friday, in another email to employees, he confirmed that he will be cutting salaried employees by 10%, arguing that the company had become "overstaffed in many areas." But, "hourly headcount will increase."
On Friday, Tesla's shares sank by 9.2%.
The company's shares, along with its subsidiaries, had around 100,000 employees by the end of last year.
Read more: Musk paid firm to monitor Tesla employees in 2017, 2018
Musk threatens to fire Tesla execs if they don't return to office
Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that Elon Musk has allegedly threatened to fire the executive staff of Tesla Inc. if they do not go back to working 40 hours a week.
An email sent by Musk to the company's executives had the subject line "Remote work is no longer acceptable," made it clear that he will fire those who want to continue their working-from-home routine, according to the report.
“Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum (and I mean *minimum*) of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla. This is less than we ask of factory workers,” Bloomberg cited Musk as saying in the email.
Musk, in parallel, said that Tesla executives must return to the main office, and not a remote branch office, according to the report.
