Tesla cuts jobs in China after sales flop
Tesla has reported that it is cutting jobs in China, with local papers suggesting that as many as 180 of its 600 employees in the country will be let go. A spokesperson for the electric car manufacturer confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that the cuts were taking place, but would not say how many jobs were being lost. “We’re not just leaving. We’re trying to serve the market,” said Tesla spokesperson Gary Tao. “Some people will go.”
Tesla sold fewer than 2,500 cars in China last year
The cuts may be small on the global scale — Tesla nearly doubled its staff in 2014 to more than 10,000 — but they follow a bad year in China. It was thought that the country could be a prosperous market for Tesla considering Chinese citizens’ taste for…
Source:: The Verge
