Tesla layoffs: These top managers have left the company

Six executives have left Tesla since layoffs began last month. VCG/Getty

Since Tesla’s layoffs were announced in mid-April, six well-known executives have left the company.

Some of the executives said they wanted to spend more time with their families, while others remained silent.

Elon Musk announced last month that he would lay off 10 percent of Tesla’s workforce and called for “tough” layoffs on Monday.

This is a machine translation of an article from our US colleagues at Business Insider. It was automatically translated and checked by a real editor.

Elon Musk has lost half a dozen executives. Since Musk announced the layoff of more than ten percent of the workforce in April, six top executives have already left the company. Some said they quit, others left the company because their teams were completely disbanded.

In his final email to employees announcing more layoffs, Musk said that “we must be absolutely tough on reducing headcount and costs,” according to a report by The Information.

Musk threatened that more heads could roll if deep enough cuts weren’t made. He said he would call for the resignation of any executive who “employs more than three people who clearly do not meet the test of excellence, necessity and trustworthiness,” according to the report.

Business Insider (BI) has compiled a list of all the well-known executives who have left Tesla in the past month, ranked in order of most recent departures. Tesla did not respond to BI’s request for comment on the executive departures.

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