While two of its gigafactories opened in 2022 are in very serious financial difficulty and the company recently laid off 500 employees in Nevada, a new fact adds to the latest difficulties that the firm is undergoing. Indeed, Tesla is facing very funny organizational problems following the declaration of Elon Musk, prohibiting its employees from teleworking.
No parking space, poor quality Wi-Fi, lack of furniture
While Elon Musk asked all of the firm’s employees to immediately stop teleworking and come and do their ” 40 hours of work per week in the office, or leave Tesla », the company is struggling to properly welcome its face-to-face employees. Indeed, according to a report of The Information posted on June 27, employees arrived at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California, without enough parking spaces, sometimes with no desks to sit at and with poor Wi-Fi .
BMW inaugurates its first electric vehicle factory in China
Tesla employees told The Information that they were having difficulty finding a place to park as close as possible to the Fremont site. Thus, some of them have chosen to park their car at the Warmsprings BART metro station located about 2.5 kilometers from the headquarters and then to be driven to work by Tesla using the shuttles usually set up by the firm. for its employees using public transport.
It is at this metro station that some Tesla employees go to then be brought to work by the firm. The parking lot of this station (part of which is on the left of the image) is regularly filled with vehicles of employees working for Tesla. Photo: Bay Area Rapid Transit.
Tesla would not have taken into account the increase in the number of its employees
Since 2019, Tesla’s workforce has doubled and now has 99,000 employees, almost a third of whom work (or have been assigned) in these offices in Fremont. The company hired a large number of people during the Covid-19 pandemic, in 2020 and 2021. These new employees worked remotely and had, until now, no obligation to come to work on site, favoring telework .
The firm did not take the time to take inventory of its furniture, to check its Wi-Fi connection (in order to know if it was adequate for a large number of simultaneous connections) or even to enlarge its parking lot. Neither Tesla nor Elon Musk reacted to the publication of the report proposed by The Information. Recently, the boss of Tesla had answered questions from Twitter employees, in particular regarding dismissal and telecommuting. He then provided answers blowing hot and cold.