Musk wants to cut 10 percent of Tesla jobs: Report
Al JazeeraTesla CEO Elon Musk has a ‘super bad feeling’ about the economy, he said in an email to executives seen by Reuters news. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a “super bad feeling” about the economy and needs to cut about 10 percent of jobs at the electric carmaker, he said in an email to executives seen by the Reuters news agency. Wedbush Securities analyst Daniel Ives said in a tweet it appeared Musk and Tesla were “trying to be ahead of a slower delivery ramp this year and preserve margins ahead of an economic slowdown.” ‘Pause all hiring’ Before Musk’s warning, Tesla had about 5,000 job postings on LinkedIn from sales in Tokyo and engineers at its new Berlin gigafactory to deep learning scientists in Palo Alto. In June 2018, Musk said Tesla would cut 9 percent of its workforce as the then-loss-making company struggled to ramp up output of Model 3 electric sedans, although data in its SEC filings showed reductions were more than offset by hiring by year-end.