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• Most affected positions were hourly data annotation roles
• CEO Musk has earlier said 10% of salaried employees would lose jobs
Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) has laid off around 200 workers on its Autopilot team as the electric carmaker shut down its office in San Mateo, California, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing a person who had been laid off.
Most of the laid-off people from the San Mateo office had been hourly workers, the report said.
The news comes days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company would reduce its salaried workforce by 10% in the next three months and also mentioned that job cuts in the hourly workforce are expected to grow significantly.
The laid-off person told Reuters that although Tesla had previously told the employees at the office that they would move to an office in Palo Alto in stages starting this month after the San Mateo lease expired, the EV maker laid off most of the workers on Tuesday.
Workers in Tesla’s San Mateo office work on data annotation - reviewing and labeling visuals collected from the company’s electric vehicles to teach the Autopilot system how to handle certain kinds of road scenarios.
Several Tesla data annotation employees said on Linkedin on Tuesday that they had been laid off.
“So kind of a disappointing day today. Myself, along with almost the whole San Mateo Branch at Tesla, just got laid off,” Caeser Rosas, a data annotation specialist, said on a Linkedin post.
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