Elaine Jean Tech 06.15.2022 10:Jun AM EDT

Elon Musk Is Beginning To Lay Off 10% of Tesla Employees—Former Worker Confirms

Elon Musk, the CEO and founder of Tesla, has been making numerous headlines regarding its electric vehicle company.

Not so long ago, Musk announced the mandatory return to work and immediate halt of work from home set up for his Tesla employees. The CEO, in an email, stated that if employees choose not to return, the car company will consider the absence as a form of resignation.

Following that, in a tweet exchange online, he admitted that he has a super bad feeling about the economy and that he might consider cutting off 10% of jobs at Tesla. He replied to a follower of his, stating he indeed believes that a recession is about to come.

From the looks of it, it seems like the cutting of jobs has begun.

Tesla Employees Cut Off

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, announced earlier this month that he planned to reduce the staff by 10 percent because he had a very awful feeling about the economic situation. With that, Tesla has begun the process of reducing its employment in earnest.

Business Insider has reported that it has discovered 11 LinkedIn posts on Wednesday morning from former Tesla employees stating that they had been fired as a result of the company's cutbacks. The LinkedIn posts reveal that the company is well underway in the process of downsizing its employment.

The terminations seem to have started happening last week and have picked up speed since then. This week, nine of the posts were published, while the other two were released toward the end of the previous week.

The LinkedIn posts were contributed by a diverse group of employees from across the organization, including a regional warehouse manager, a lead for a CGI animation project, staff trainers, and a project lead.

It seemed like the Tesla employees that posted on LinkedIn had a variety of different experiences working for the company.

As a result of the job reduction, senior roles have also been affected. Christopher Bousigues, who worked as the national manager for Tesla in Singapore, shared on LinkedIn over the weekend that he had been let go as part of the company's efforts to reduce the number of employees.

According to Bousigues post, he stated, "In the past year the team and I built the business from the ground up, made of the Model 3 a common sight in the Singapore car landscape, set up 2 showrooms, 1 service center (that I affectionately call the Jewel of Asia), developed a network of 7 superchargers across the island, and successfully launched Model Y yesterday with overwhelming response."

Tesla's Hiring Event in China

Just recently, in line with the ongoing layoff, Tesla has reportedly called off three online recruitment events that were slated to take place in China this month. This is the most recent turn of events that have taken place after Musk vowed to cut jobs at the company after openly remarking on Twitter that there was a possibility that a recession would take place.

Late on Thursday, notifications were sent on the messaging platform WeChat indicating that the three events for positions that were initially scheduled for June 16, 23, and 30 had been canceled by the company.

On the other hand, as previously reported here in iTechPost, the manufacturing operation of Tesla in China is still collecting resumes for the over one thousand openings that have been published on social media sites.

These jobs are for a variety of positions, including laborers, managers of supply chains, engineers specializing in aerodynamics, retail managers, and supply chain managers.