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At the end of February, Tesla announced that he would close offline stores around the world and switch to an online sales model, thereby saving operating costs, thanks to a 6% reduction in the price of all-line models, but now Tesla has changed his mind and decided to readjust his sales strategy. the plan is to retain a large number of stores and raise the prices of some high-end models.

Nonetheless, Tesla still wants to cut costs, so layoffs are inevitable. Tesla has made a major round of layoffs in his global recruitment team, or has laid off about half of his global recruitment team, or about 150 people, Electrek reported.

Several Tesla's long-term recruiters and senior staff who were fired said they had received notice today and received severance pay based on their time at the company. There are also laid off employees said that Tesla layoffs is to cut costs.

Tesla declined to comment.

In January, Tesla announced that it would lay off 7 per cent of its full-time staff, in an effort to cut costs while increasing production of Model 3, while Tesla also had a massive layoff in June last year, when 9 per cent of the company's workforce reached 4100. CEO Musk said layoffs were "difficult, but also necessary."

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