Desirous of managing its market stagnancy, Elon Musk’s Tesla is persistently restructuring its workforce resulting in hundreds of layoffs. Quite a few Tesla employees have shared their experiences on social media about how they were terminated overnight and not even permitted to enter the office the next day.Tesla is laying off about 10 per cent of its global workforce. The job reduction in the EV company is the resultant of rapid growth leading to duplication of roles, Musk informed the company staff via an internal email, according to AFP.

Recently, a Tesla ex-employee, Nico Murillo, who was laid off in Tesla’s job cut drive shared his experience in his recent LinkedIn post. He said, ‘Showered at factory, slept in parking lot’. His layoff story has gone viral. Although the full scale of these new layoffs is unclear, Bloomberg has reported that Tesla’s total headcount fall that started earlier this month could end up being as high as 20 percent of its workforce, or well in excess of 20,000 personnel.

The termination of services by Tesla on 15^thApril left Nico Murillo in disbelief. The LinkedIn post detailed Murillo’s five-year-long journey with the company. He says at times he even chose to sleep in the car to save time spent on traveling.“At one point in 2023 I was even sacrificing sleeping in my car on work days just to avoid commuting to work. Showered at the factory and slept in the parking lot. Microwaved dinner in the break room,” wrote Nico Murillo on LinkedIn.

Sharing the facts about how he became aware about his termination, Murillo informed that he found his account deactivated after he opened his laptop in the early morning at 4:30 am on April 15. He ignored the signal considering it a normal problem. But, he got the final message after he checked his mail at 5 am.”I usually check my emails while on my autopilot commute to work (1hr 30min drive) Email read: “Unfortunately as a result, your position has been eliminated by this restructuring.”

Soon when he attempted to connect with his manager for the same, he became aware about the termination of a lot of his teammates. Within hours, when he attempted to enter the company with his badge, he was informed about lay off. Sacked Murillo’s LinkedIn post has sparked an online debate if employees should in fact make ‘sacrifices’ for their companies.