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Tesla sends another wave of layoff notices as employees enter 4th week of job cuts

Tesla sends another wave of layoff notices as employees enter 4th week of job cuts

Tesla CEO Elon Musk told staff Tesla would cut more than 10% of its workforce.Nathan Howard and Justin Sullivan via Getty Images
  • Tesla sent out another round of layoff notices on Sunday night, impacted workers wrote on social media.
  • Elon Musk told staff Tesla planned to cut more than 10% of its workforce last month.
  • Tesla has continued to cut more workers over the past few weeks.

Elon Musk continues to cut deeper at Tesla. The company sent out another round of layoff notices on Sunday night, according to impacted workers who posted about the cuts on social media.

The latest round of cuts mean that employees at the company are entering their fourth straight week of layoff notices. At least seven Tesla workers took to LinkedIn to say they’d received layoff notices on Sunday.

“After watching my team gradually slimmed down week after week since mid-April, I received the dreaded ‘Hello Employee’ email this Sunday afternoon,” one Tesla worker wrote on LinkedIn.

Another worker shared a screenshot of her layoff email on LinkedIn that showed her last day of work would be May 5.

A spokesperson for Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment ahead of publication.

Workers at the carmaker previously told Business Insider the continual waves of layoff notices had left them on edge, with many looking for opportunities outside of the company.

“I keep waiting for Elon to send another email and tell us they’re finally done firing people,” one current Tesla worker, who requested anonymity to speak on the conditions of their employment, said. “We need some level of closure or a sign that we can stop worrying about losing our jobs.”

Since Elon Musk first announced that Tesla was slashing more than 10% of its workforce on April 14, workers have continued to get layoff notices in waves. At the time, Musk said the cuts were due to a “duplication of roles and job functions in certain areas,” according to a screenshot of the April email that was viewed by BI. Within hours of that memo, the company began notifying impacted employees that they’d been terminated. But, some employees did not learn there role had been eliminated until they attempted to badge into a Tesla facility.

In the weeks that followed Tesla workforce reductions have hit different teams — from recruiters and the marketing team to Tesla’s Supercharging team. Some Tesla recruiters were laid off, BI first reported.

Musk reportedly told executives last week that…

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