Tesla is seemingly preparing for a round of layoffs as it asks its manager to identify critical members of their teams.
According to a new report from Bloomberg, Tesla has asked all managers to identify “critical” members of their teams:
US managers had to make the binary assessment of their deputies’ roles in recent days, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. Tesla sent out the single-line query for each job after canceling some employees’ biannual performance reviews, some of the people said.
It would indicate that Tesla is preparing for a round of layoffs – something the automaker has been known to do periodically.
Tesla has generally justified layoff rounds with hiring inefficiencies through its aggressive headcount growth, but that has slowed down over the…