--- title: "Tesla’s Firing Even More Employees as Crisis Deepens" description: "Tesla is slashing another 600 jobs at its facilities in California, running the gamut from factory workers to highly qualified engineers." date: "2024-05-19" modified: "2024-05-19" authors: - name: "Jon Christian" job_title: "Executive Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-firing-even-more-employees" categories: - "Advanced Transport" - "Tesla" tags: - "economics" - "elon musk" - "tesla" - "the digest" --- # Tesla’s Firing Even More Employees as Crisis Deepens ![Tesla is slashing another 600 jobs at its facilities in California, running the gamut from factory workers to highly qualified engineers.]() *KRAKOW, POLAND - 2024/01/22: Elon Musk of RPA attends the Conference European Jewish Association at DoubleTree by Hilton in Krakow. Elon Musk visited Poland on the invitation of European Jewish Association (EJA )to show his support for the Jewish fight against antisemitism. Elon Musk was accused of antisemitism after some antisemitic posts were published on X platform. (Photo by Grzegorz Wajda/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) \Image: Grzegorz Wajda/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images\* ## Head Count Electric vehicle maker Tesla has been hit by [round]() after [round]() after [round]() of layoffs over the past month or so, to the degree that it's somewhat hazy exactly how many employees have been affected. And the cuts keep piling up, with [*CNBC* now obtaining]() government paperwork through a public records request that shows the company is slashing *another* 600 jobs at its facilities in California, running the gamut from factory workers to highly qualified engineers. The implication of *CNBC*'s reporting is that the full extent of Tesla's cuts may end up being drastically higher than the 10 percent headcount reduction CEO Elon Musk [warned about]() at the outset of the cullings back in April. As the network points out, Musk claimed in an April earnings call that "inefficiency" at the company was running between 20 and 30 percent, suggesting that the seemingly ongoing sackings could come to total nearly a third of the company's previous workforce of more than 140,000 at the end of last year. ## Masterful Gambit It's striking to watch Tesla writhe and contract, because just a few years ago it was on top of the world, having seemingly demonstrated not only that it could make electric vehicles a red-hot status symbol but that it could produce them at scale. Things have soured since then, though. Maintenance and reliability for the vehicles have proven to be more painful than initially expected, sapping consumer interest, at the same time that cheaper alternatives are [emerging overseas](). And hovering over the entire mess is Musk himself, whose [antics since buying X-formerly-Twitter]() have raised questions about his business acumen at the same time that he's aggressively pushed Tesla's incomplete self-driving and robotics efforts while hyper-publically embracing a menagerie of conspiratorial and rightwing positions that seem to have [alienated the company's core buyers](). "It got to the point where we felt like we were driving around in a QAnon-MAGA hat, as if Tesla had become a symbol of white supremacy," one former Tesla owner [explained last year](). **More on Tesla:** [*98 Percent of Drivers Who Try Tesla's Full Self-Driving Demo Ditch It After the Trail Period Is Over*]() ## Author I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()