Tesla fires about 200 employees involved in autonomous driving technology and closes office in California
Tesla, which sells electric vehicles, has reportedly fired about 200 employees and completely closed its office in California. Many of the dismissed employees were involved in machine learning techniques used for autonomous driving, and most were hourly workers.
Tesla (TSLA) Lays Off Workers in Autopilot Unit, Closes San Mateo Office --Bloomberg
According to news site Bloomberg, Tesla has closed its office in San Mateo, California, and fired about 200 hourly workers remaining in the office. The San Mateo team is responsible for evaluating customer vehicle data related to the driving support function that realizes autonomous driving, and many employees add metadata to a large amount of data 'data annotation' Was an expert.
The San Mateo office has been shrinking for some time, and some of the 350 employees were originally ordered to relocate to a nearby facility a few weeks before the press. Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced in June 2022 that he would reduce existing workforce by about 10% over the next three months, suggesting that the office closure may be part of that impact. I am. However, CEO Musk has also set out the prospect of increasing the number of hourly workers, and said that the reduction of personnel and the securing of new personnel will overlap, and the reduction will eventually settle to about 3.5%.
Tesla has grown to have about 100,000 employees worldwide, but Mask CEO says he will increase the number of employees and 'more in the next year,' and the growing electric vehicle market. We are rushing to invest in.
In addition, the team in Buffalo, New York, which is in charge of data annotation work similar to San Mateo, complains that 'Tesla continues to expand the data annotation team, but the salary paid is lower than San Mateo.' thing. Tesla has ordered employees to stop remote work as employee attendance is essential to the company's growth, but there are also problems such as lack of desks and parking lots for employees who have come to work. It has been reported.
Tesla, which has abolished remote work, lacks parking lots and desks for employees, Wi-Fi is also useless --GIGAZINE
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