Elon Musk’s ‘Hardcore Mode’: Fires Tesla’s entire supercharging team in latest round of layoffs
In the latest round of layoffs at Tesla, Elon Musk has laid off two top-level executives and several hundreds of employees. Musk has also disbanded the supercharger team. Tesla is not done with layoffs yet and will be terminating more people in the days to come
Tesla, the EV giant, has announced another wave of layoffs just two weeks after its first round of terminations, when it laid off about 10 per cent of its workforce, affecting approximately 14,000 employees.
According to reports by The Information, the company has let go of two senior executives and plans to terminate hundreds more positions.
Among those affected are senior director Rebecca Tinucci and 500 staff members from the Supercharger team, along with Daniel Ho, head of the new vehicles program, and his team. Additionally, Tesla’s public policy team, led by former executive Rohan Patel, is being dissolved.
According to the Financial Times, Musk has fired the entire supercharger team.
In a memo shared with the staff at Tesla, Musk wrote that the organisation needs to be “hardcore” about costs and the headcount, and that while some executives are taking their jobs and Tesla’s tough phase seriously, most of them aren’t.
Musk went on to say that managers “who retain more than three people, don’t obviously pass the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test” and should therefore resign and work somewhere else.
