Yeah, Elon is no my hero. Not even a dawn surprise.
The internal email was sent close to midnight PT, per a timestamp seen by Business Insider.
In the memo, obtained by BI, the Tesla CEO said that there has been a "duplication of roles and job functions in certain areas" as the company has grown rapidly.
On Sunday night, workers who were impacted by the layoffs received an email to their personal accounts, informing them their roles had been eliminated.
"Effective now, you will not need to perform any further work and therefore will no longer have access to Tesla systems and physical locations," the email read.
I’ve seen it done several ways. Had it happen personally once, just like this one. Worked for a medium sized cloud company sold to Private Equity. Those who were not slated to be retained ( in my case, no interest in gov business), were notified and removed from system access the same day. My case - a phone call during my commute; FSD would have been helpful. I have worked for other companies that do it through packages and affected employees leave at a future date and usually with a severance package. Personally, I prefer the second approach.
I think the issue with the second choice is the need for some companies like Tesla is to remove access to avoid losing intellectual property, prevent sabotage, etc... and the fact that employees really can't do their job at that point. Not sure what the severance package situation is...
Tesla has begun sending out severance info to laid-off workers. Here's how much they're getting.
Five former workers told Business Insider that Tesla's severance offer included two months' pay.www.businessinsider.com
Ah, so this addresses the severance aspect of this... so I'm not sure this could reasonably have been handled much differently @RSpanner ...