Tesla Announces Steep Employee Cuts Amid Revenue Drop
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING Elon Musk’s Tesla announced Tuesday that it plans to lay off 6,020 employees in a massive round of cuts as the electric vehicle company weathers its biggest revenue drop in more than a decade. The notices became public the same day Tesla held its quarterly earnings call with investors, revealing a 9% drop in first-quarter revenue year-over-year that marks its biggest decline since 2012. The call happened days after the company recalled thousands of its Cybertrucks over concerns accelerator pedal pads may dislodge and stick, potentially causing the $100,000 vehicles to crash. Amid the news, Musk boasted on X, which was known as Twitter until he bought it in 2022, about Tesla creating 30,000 manufacturing jobs in California over the past 14 years.