Christopher Bousigues, the Singapore country manager from Tesla, stated that his function has been minimize as half of a worldwide discount within the electrical carmaker’s workforce. Bousigues stated he was liable for launching the Model Y in Singapore.
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Tesla has laid off its Singapore country manager simply over per week after the electrical carmaker’s CEO Elon Musk warned of international job cuts.
Christopher Bousigues posted on LinkedIn on Sunday that his function had been “eliminated.”
Bousigues’ LinkedIn profile exhibits that he was the country manager for Singapore and had been employed by Tesla for simply over a yr.
He didn’t give a particular motive for his dismissal however stated it’s in relation to the job cuts that Tesla had already flagged.
Bousigues and Tesla didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark when contacted by CNBC.
Earlier this month, Musk despatched a letter to workers asserting plans to cut back “salaried headcount by 10% as we have become overstaffed in many areas.” Musk stated that he has a “super bad feeling” concerning the economic system in a separate electronic mail to executives, Reuters reported.
Tesla employed almost 100,000 individuals around the globe as of the tip of 2021.
Bousigues stated he was the primary country manager in south east Asia and that, prior to now yr, he and his workforce had “built the business from the ground up.” The former Tesla worker highlighted some of his achievements together with organising two showrooms, one service heart and launching the Tesla Model Y final week in Singapore.