Tesla announced the . at layoff of 200 employees They all worked in offices in San Mateo, California, and for a subsection of the Autopilot division, the one with “data annotation” jobs. It’s just the first of what could be a long list of layoffs.
Citing mistrust of the global economic condition, and thus fear of an impending recession, Elon Musk announced that Tesla would likely be forced to lay off 10% of its workforce.
The decision to leave some employees of the Autopilot division at home was the most surprising. Trivial, because until a few months ago it was thought to be a strategic and fundamental division for the car manufacturer’s future.
from the team’data annotationOnly 81 employees were rescued, out of a total of 276. They will be transferred to another office, the Tech Crunch website writes.
Most of the employees – explains a knowledgeable source – were rated as ‘low-skilled’ by the company. Their job was to analyze several hours of Autopilot collected material each day and then record any instances where the system failed to correctly identify an object. A job that must be carried out by employees of the Buffalo offices in the future.
Source: Lega Nerd
