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| Tesla vehicles are parked outside a building at the Zhongnanhai leadership compound during a meeting between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing, China, January 9, 2019. (File photo by=Mark Schiefelbein/Pool via REUTERS) |
[Asia News = Reporter Reakkana] SHANGHAI: Tesla Inc has canceled three online recruitment events for China scheduled this month, the latest development after Chief Executive Elon Musk threatened job cuts at the electric car maker, saying it was "overstaffed" in some areas. However, Musk had not commented specifically on staffing in China, which made more than half of the vehicles for the automaker globally and contributed a quarter of its revenue in 2021, Reuters reported.
The company canceled the three events for positions in sales, R&D, and its supply chain originally scheduled for Jun 16, 23, and 30, notifications on messaging app WeChat showed late on Thursday (Jun 9), without stating a reason. Tesla didn't respond to a Reuters request for comment on Friday. Notification of a Jun 9 event to recruit staff for "smart manufacturing" roles was not visible and it wasn’t immediately clear if it had been held as planned.
The China operation is still allowing resume submission for more than 1,000 openings posted on the social media platform, such as aerodynamics engineers, supply chain managers, store managers, factory supervisors, and workers. Musk had a "super bad feeling" about the economy, he said in an email seen by Reuters last week. Production at Tesla's Shanghai plant was badly hit after the Chinese commercial hub began a two-month COVID-19 lockdown late in March.
