Local NewsIn all, thousands of Tesla employees across the country are now out of a job. Many of the cuts include employees at the company’s headquarters and Gigafactory in Austin as well as service centers throughout the Houston area.
“As part of this effort, we have done a thorough review of the organization and made the difficult decision to reduce our headcount globally. Unfortunately as a result, your position has been eliminated by this restructuring,” said the email in part.that they showed up to work only to find they’d been locked out of the building and all Tesla systems.
Elon Musk commented on the layoffs on X, formerly Twitter, the social media platform he bought in 2022. Tesla’s CEO saying the organizational overhaul is done every decade to help the company grow.April 16, 2024to employees if the company conducts “a mass layoff affecting at least 50 employees and 1/3 of the worksite’s total workforce or 500 or more employees at the single site of employment during any 90-day period.
KPRC2 requested comment from Tesla and the Texas Workforce Commission. We have not received a response to our questions.Gage Goulding is an award-winning TV news reporter and anchor. A native of Pittsburgh, PA, he comes to Texas from Fort Myers, FL, where he covered some of the areas most important stories, including Hurricane Ian.