After musk mandated 40 hours of operational hours for all tesla made steep cuts to its headcount in early june 2022. Workers who were previously designated as remote workers but who couldn't relocate to the office 40 hours a week had until september 30 to relocate or take a severance package from tesla. “They were given a choice—move to the office or take a buyout,” says a former employee who was let go. “They were given a six-month notice. I don’t think they had any choice.”
In September, the company began laying off employees, starting with those who had been designated as remote workers. The cuts were not random. As a former employee told me, “They were going to fire some of us, but they weren’t going to fire some of us. They were going to fire the ones who wouldn’t move.”
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