Tesla Elon Musk

2022 - 6 - 3

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Elon Musk seeks 10% job cuts at Tesla over 'super bad feeling ... (The Guardian)

Email to executives also calls for hiring freeze at electric car maker, which has 100000 staff worldwide.

“This is not a decision we make lightly, but is necessary to ensure we are only growing in the highest-priority areas,” LJ Brock, the company’s chief people officer, wrote in a blogpost. “That is why I lived in the factory so much – so that those on the line could see me working alongside them. “The more senior you are, the more visible must be your presence,” said Musk in the return-to-the-office email.

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Elon Musk tells Tesla execs the company needs to lay off 10 percent ... (The Verge)

Reuters reports that Tesla CEO and pending owner of Twitter Elon Musk emailed execs at the auto company on Thursday, saying he has a "super bad feeling" ...

In its last annual report, Tesla said the “fair market value of our bitcoin holdings as of December 31st, 2021 was $1.99 billion.” At the time, Bitcoin’s price was $46,224.39, and as of this writing, Coinbase reports the price is $29,803.70, a drop of about 35 percent. "Clearly this is a much different Musk than we saw in mid-April.. and I think that's reflective in the stock in terms of everything we've seen in China." $TSLA pic.twitter.com/cBf2bJiSDM June 3, 2022 Elon Musk emailed Tesla executives on Thursday, Reuters reports, telling them the company needs to pause hiring worldwide and cut its workforce by about 10 percent.

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Tesla shares dip on Elon Musk's plans to cut workforce (CNBC)

Tesla shares dipped about 6% on Friday after news that CEO Elon Musk plans a hiring freeze and 10% job cuts at his electric vehicle and renewable energy ...

As Tesla shares dip, so do some of Musk's capital resources. Osborne wrote: "We expect Tesla to point to challenges in achieving its stated goal of about 50% delivery growth in 2022. Tesla shares dipped 8.5% on Friday on news that CEO Elon Musk plans for a hiring freeze and 10% job cuts at his electric vehicle and renewable energy venture.

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Elon Musk needs to cut 10% of Tesla jobs due to 'super bad' feeling ... (Globalnews.ca)

Elon Musk, the world's richest man according to Forbes, did not elaborate on the reasons for his "super bad feeling" about the economic outlook in the brief ...

China accounted for just over a third of Tesla’s global deliveries in 2021, according to company disclosures and data released on sales there. In late May, when asked on Twitter whether a recession was coming, Musk said: “Yes, but this is actually a good thing. The U.S. will cool off, while China and Europe are not going to rebound.” Meta Platforms, Uber and other technology companies have slowed hiring. We expect a cooling of the global economy towards the end of the year. U.S. Nasdaq futures turned negative and were trading 0.6 per cent lower.

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Tesla Stock Plunge Erases $65 Billion In Value After Elon Musk ... (Forbes)

Experts have warned recession fears are likely overblown, but Musk reportedly wants to lay off 10% of Tesla's nearly 100000 workers.

The NHTSA has opened multiple investigations into Tesla over separate safety-related issues, many involving the potential use of the carmaker’s autopilot feature. Tesla has plunged 41% this year, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq is down 24%. Tesla shares plummeted Tuesday after CEO Elon Musk reportedly told executives he needed to scale back hiring and cut jobs due to growing concerns over the economy, adding to worries about the electric-vehicle maker that have spurred staggering losses for its shares this year.

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As Elon Musk orders Tesla staff back to the office, many tech ... (CBC.ca)

A sternly worded internal email, apparently sent by Elon Musk ordering people to either return to the office or leave Tesla, is raising eyebrows in a time ...

He said the group's research suggests women, as well as racial and ethnic minorities, tend to have a higher preference for working from home. "Today's startups have embraced remote work and flexibility, and I think this will become the predominant way that we all work 10 years from now. New research also suggests it's something employees value as much as a raise, and that it could even contribute to diversity in the workplace. He ultimately finds the order disappointing. "It's a power move," Gunn said. Just two days after that order was issued, Reuters reported that Musk sent an email to executives titled "pause all hiring worldwide."

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Tesla Stock Plunge Erases $75 Billion In Value After Elon Musk ... (Forbes)

Experts have warned that recession fears are likely overblown, but Musk reportedly wants to lay off 10% of Tesla's nearly 100000 workers.

The NHTSA has opened multiple investigations into Tesla over separate safety-related issues, many involving the potential use of the carmaker’s autopilot feature. Tesla has plunged 41% this year, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq is down 24%. Tesla shares plummeted Tuesday after CEO Elon Musk reportedly told executives he needed to scale back hiring and cut jobs due to growing concerns over the economy, adding to worries about the electric-vehicle maker that have spurred staggering losses for its shares this year.

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Elon Musk orders Tesla to cut jobs and pause hiring. Is he signaling ... (USA TODAY)

Electric vehicle (EV) leader Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) has continued to build on its industry lead recently – in just the past few months, it opened two new ...

But the new developments could indicate some amount of slowdown on that growth. For investors, the takeaway is that Tesla stock could see tough times ahead – at least for the short term. In addition to the new plants ramping up, Shanghai is just reopening after COVID-19 lockdowns stymied production for many EV makers in recent weeks. Importantly, Musk did add in his Friday email that the job cuts will apply to salaried workers and "hourly headcount will increase," indicating the new facilities will continue to ramp production to some extent. In an email Thursday titled "pause all hiring worldwide," Musk told his executive team to trim 10% of the company's workforce and put a freeze on hiring, according to Reuters' report. But it appears that CEO Elon Musk is tapping the brakes.

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Tesla to Cut 10% of Salaried Staff, Musk Tells Employees (The New York Times)

The electric carmaker has been growing fast in recent years, but Elon Musk, its chief executive, appears to be concerned about a weakening economy.

Tesla has lost a number of top executives in recent years, many of whom have gone on to top jobs at other automakers, tech companies and battery makers. They’ll be burning the 3 a.m. oil,” he said about Chinese workers in an interview with The Financial Times. “So they won’t even leave the factory type of thing. “They won’t just be burning the midnight oil. Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, capped what seemed an improbable attempt by the famously mercurial billionaire to buy Twitter for roughly $44 billion. It also invited concern that he may drive away top performers who would prefer to continue working remotely some or all of the time. The market values the company at more than $728 billion, more than several other large automakers combined.

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Tesla jobs: Elon Musk has 'super bad feeling' on economy - CNN (CNN)

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a "super bad feeling" about the economy and wants to cut about 10% of jobs at the electric carmaker, he said in an email to ...

"Everyone at Tesla is required to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week," Musk wrote in his Tuesday email. Inflation in the United States is hovering at 40-year highs and has caused a jump in the cost of living for Americans, while the Federal Reserve faces the difficult task of dampening demand enough to curb inflation while not causing a recession. Musk's stark warning of a potential recession and the knock-on effect for automakers is the most direct and high-profile forecast of its kind in the industry.

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Elon Musk clarifies that Tesla layoffs are just for salaried employees ... (Electrek)

Elon Musk has clarified that Tesla laying off 10% of its workforce only applies to "salaried employees" and not hourly workers.

Of course, Musk also stated to execs that he is worried about the economy, which led to Tesla’s stock falling more than 8% this morning. Earlier today, we reported on Elon Musk telling Tesla executives in an email that they need to cut 10% of the workforce and pause hiring due to having a “super bad feeling” about the economy. Firstly, it literally cannot support having all those people at its offices, which might be why Musk announced the stop of remote work.

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Elon Musk's Big Bet Against Remote Work: Will Tesla Win? (Forbes)

Musk should expect a forced return to the office to generate immediate resignations, incremental loss of key talent over time, and diminished productivity ...

His recent praise for Chinese workers who are “burning the 3am oil,” as opposed to their American counterparts who “are trying to avoid going to work at all” belies the truth about what’s really going on in Tesla’s Chinese factories. With the cost of such care skyrocketing, demand far outweighing supply in most of the country, and frequent pandemic-related closures still the norm, being at home to care for family members is becoming a “must have” for many workers. Remote workers are better able to juggle the competing demands of work and child- and eldercare. “We’re not the same people that went home to work in early 2020,” the study notes. Elon Musk’s June 1 email to Tesla employees was titled, “To Be Super Clear.” His directive left no room for speculation: Everyone, at every level, was ordered to work a minimum of 40 hours per week, in-person, at the office. Microsoft’s 2022 Work Trend Index indicates that the majority of tech companies—and not Tesla—are on the right track: Based on a study over 31,000 employees around the world, it found that 52% are considering switching to a full-time remote or hybrid job this year.

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Can the SEC stand up to the richest man on the planet? (NPR)

The world's richest man, who has run afoul of regulators before, is in their sights again as he tries to buy Twitter. It's raising questions about the SEC's ...

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