Tesla Lays Off 200 Autopilot Workers, Closes San Mateo Offices In California | Carscoops carscoops
The San Mateo offices employed around 350 people, with 200 of the workforce being laid off, and others already relocated to nearby facilities. As reported by
citing an unnamed source, the teams on these premises were evaluating Autopilot-related data gathered from customer vehicles, with many of them being annotation specialists.This practice is known as data labeling, with staff practicing it in Tesla’s offices in Buffalo, and New York. According to another source, the hourly rate in Buffalo is lower than in San Mateo for Tesla workers doing the same job. Tesla didn’t comment on the matter. Following the news, Tesla shares fell by 1.
The company is on a quest to downsize its workforce following a hiring spree in previous years that resulted in around 100,000 employees on a global scale. The cuts will be focused on areas that recently saw a fast growth, which means that some of the people losing their jobs only had them for a short period of time.
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