Tesla Begins 10% Staff Layoff, Some Ex-employees Confirm It On LinkedIn

Nearly a fortnight after CEO Elon Musk expressed a "super bad feeling" about the economy and the need to cut about 10% of salaried staff at the electric carmaker company, the latter has begun coming true.

Tesla has indeed reportedly begun laying off employees as part of the targeted 10% reduction in the workforce. Some laid-off employees have confirmed the same on LinkedIn, and are seeking new roles.

Shelly Agrawal, for whom it was her first job as Analyst of Sales & Delivery at Tesla in the USA, is amongst the employees laid off.

She joined as a Business System Analyst Intern in August 2020. Shelly wrote on LinkedIn ¡°News of being part of the Tesla layoffs has come as a shock to me. Due to a recent change in Remote work policy and a 10% reduction in salaried employees, my journey with #tesla has come to an end. As a part of my first job, It has been an exponential learning curve for me working with amazing people towards a sustainable future.¡±

Dani Benjamin, who had joined Tesla as Senior Manager General Assembly in Jan 2022, confirmed his layoff on LinkedIn four days ago.

A part of his long post mentioned ¡°Some chapters are shorter than others. Unfortunately, I was among those 10% Tesla employees that got affected yesterday. However, despite the relatively short period of time, it had been an amazing opportunity experiencing the Tesla culture and working for the leading global EV powerhouse- I leave with tons of reflections and learnings.¡±

Andrea Armagost, who was working as Manager, Learning Development & Technology, Energy Training and had joined Tesla in February 2021, too confirmed her layoff in a post on LinkedIn.

A couple of days ago, she wrote ¡°I was laid off from Tesla today. I led an amazing team of talented video producers, animators, and learning technologists for Tesla Energy Training. If you know of any open roles leading a digital learning team, please reach out. My experience is in building out design and development processes, standards, and systems. I have a background in eLearning, user experience, and web design and development. I love researching and solving problems, exploring new learning design and development tools and technologies, and driving innovation in the learning space.¡±

Another employee hit by layoffs is Christopher Bousigues, who worked as country manager at Tesla Singapore, and had joined in June 2021.

He wrote in his LinkedIn post four days ago ¡°Tesla announced a 10% of workforce reduction. My role was chosen to be eliminated as of today. Am proud to have been the company¡¯s first country manager in South East Asia, and establishing the business in Singapore. 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.¡±

These are some of the employees who have confirmed their layoff from Tesla in the past week or so by posting about it on LinkedIn.

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