Tesla to lay off 285 employees at South Buffalo location
Company-wide layoffs at Tesla will impact several employees at its South Buffalo facility.
Company-wide layoffs at Tesla will impact several employees at its South Buffalo facility.
Tesla is not having a good start to the week. Today the news is that recent price cuts have irked Tesla investors, who sent its shares off around 4% in early trading today. Tesla's last week saw the company slash its staffing, including high-performers.
Tesla management told employees Monday that the recent layoffs -- which gutted some departments by 20% and even hit high performers -- were largely due to poor financial performance, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The layoffs were announced to staff just a week before Tesla is scheduled to report its first-quarter earnings. The move comes as Tesla has seen its profit margin narrow over the past several quarters, the result of an EV price war that has persisted for at least a year.
Tesla profits fell 55% to $1.13 billion in the first quarter from the same year-ago period as a protracted EV price-cutting strategy and "several unforeseen challenges" cut into the automaker’s bottom line. Tesla reported revenue of $21.3 billion in the first quarter, a 9% drop from the first quarter of 2023. Tesla reported operating income of $1.2 billion in the first quarter, a 54% decrease from the same year-ago period.
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