Tesla has started another wave of layoffs, and this time it also includes hourly workers instead of just salaried employees like CEO Elon Musk claimed.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, we reported on Musk telling Tesla executives in an email<\/a>\u00a0that they need to cut 10% of the workforce and pause hiring due to having a \u201csuper bad feeling\u201d about the economy.<\/p>\n Later, the CEO has decided to clarify the Tesla layoffs in an email to all employees<\/a>. He claimed that the 10% reduction would be for \u201csalaried headcount\u201d due to Tesla becoming overstaffed following a long growth phase.<\/p>\n He even stated that \u201chourly headcount will increase.\u201d<\/p>\n However, we can now confirm that Tesla is also laying off hourly workers across its organization.<\/p>\n Sources familiar with the matter confirmed to Electrek<\/em> that Tesla started another wave of layoffs yesterday that included many salaried employees in its sales and delivery teams across North America.<\/p>\n Surprisingly, the layoffs come amid Tesla\u2019s being in the middle of a difficult end-of-quarter delivery wave, which Musk himself warned employees about \u2013 saying that it will be \u201cnutty.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n After Gigafactory Shanghai was shut down for a significant part of the quarter, the automaker finds itself having to deliver more vehicles at the end of the quarter in order to compensate.<\/p>\n Well, that\u2019s hard to follow. The layoffs are due to a \u201cbad feeling about the economy.\u201d No, it\u2019s about being overstaffed following a long hiring spree.<\/p>\n It will only affect salaried employees. Nope, never mind. They are letting go of hourly workers too now.<\/p>\n On top of it, that\u2019s all in the middle of an end-of-quarter delivery push that Musk tried to rally employees around.<\/p>\nElectrek\u2019s Take<\/h2>\n