American Tesla, specializing in electric cars, fired about 9% of its staff as part of a major restructuring of the company. This was reported in an email to staff from Elon musk (Elon Musk), the head of Tesla, also posted in his official Twitter account.
In General, the number of downsized employees will exceed 3 thousand people according to some sources and 4 thousand according to other sources. According to the Mask, this reorganization is a complex but necessary step. As promised Musk, it will not affect the company’s efforts to increase production of the sedan Model 3.
Recall, Tesla reported record losses over the past first quarter of 2018. Losses amounted to 709,6 million dollars. This is the largest quarterly loss in the entire history of Tesla and the fifth record loss for the consecutive quarter. Then the company stated that it expects to come into profit in the third quarter of 2018, if production of electric Model 3 will rise to 5 thousand a week from the current 2.5 thousand electric vehicles per week.