Tesla will cut 10% of its salaried employees in the next three months, with overall layoffs of 3%-3.5%

According to foreign media reports, on June 21, Musk confirmed in an interview with Bloomberg News editor-in-chief John Micklethwait at the Qatar Economic Forum (Qatar Economic Forum) that Tesla's salaried employees will be employed in the next three years. Monthly cuts are about 10%, but the company's overall layoffs will be only about 3.5% as hourly workers are expected to increase.

"Our salaried workforce is growing very fast," Musk said."I think a year from now we're going to have an increase in our headcount," including salaried and hourly workers, but overall layoffs for now will be between 3% and 3.5%.

Currently, Tesla has about 100,000 employees worldwide.The company's hiring is rapidly increasing as Tesla builds new factories in Texas and Berlin.The layoffs, which have so far affected Tesla's human resources representatives and software engineers, also caught many employees off guard, with some Tesla employees being told they would be fired immediately.On June 19, two workers at Tesla's Nevada plant filed a lawsuit in federal court in Austin, alleging Tesla did not comply with the 60-day notice required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. layoffs."Let's not read too much into preemptive lawsuits that have no legal basis," Musk said in an interview.

Image source: Screenshot of an interview with Bloomberg

Musk has also been involved in the "working from home" debate, a polarizing issue for many employees and the company.Because as the COVID-19 pandemic eases, many companies and employees are struggling to get back to normal.Earlier this month, Musk issued an ultimatum to Tesla employees to return to the office or leave the company.

In contrast, Musk praised workers at Tesla's Shanghai factory.Many Tesla Shanghai factory workers lived and worked at the factory for much of the time when Shanghai was locked down due to the new crown epidemic to keep production running."I'm very impressed with the Chinese car companies, just in terms of the average Chinese company," Musk said. "I think they're very competitive, they work hard, and they're smart."

As for competition from the world's leading automakers, Musk said Tesla isn't thinking about possible rivals.The main problem facing the company is the supply chain and itsproduction capacity."The demand for Tesla vehicles is very high, the delivery list is very long, and we really don't need to think about competition -- we just need to think about how to address the constraints on the supply chain and our capacity."

“We need to speed up the construction of factories,” he said. “Then we need topredictfuture bottlenecks in the entire lithium-ion battery supply chain, including mining, refining, production of cathodes and anodes, and production of cells.”