Elon Musk has had a bad feeling about the economy all month, to such a degree that he sent an all-staff message a few weeks ago estimating Tesla would soon be laying off about 10 percent of its workforce. Those layoffs have reportedly begun, but Musk has changed his layoff estimates to just three percent, apparently.
Musk said in a recent interview with Bloomberg News Editor-In-Chief John Micklethwait that he believes Tesla’s total workforce will actually be higher a year from now. At the moment, though, hourly employees in sales, service, and delivery have already been laid off, despite Musk’s original promise that only the company’s “salaried headcount” would be affected.
