- Tesla instructed staff on its Cybertruck manufacturing line that they did not have to report back to work for the following three days.
- Regular scheduling will resume on Friday, the corporate instructed employees.
- Tesla shortened manufacturing hours for the Cybertruck line earlier this 12 months.
On Monday, Tesla notified employees on the Austin manufacturing unit the place it assembles the Cybertruck to take the following three days off, based on a memo considered by Business Insider.
“On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week (Dec. 3-5), you do not want to report back to work,” the memo stated.
Workers have been instructed they’d nonetheless obtain eight hours of pay for every day they’d been scheduled to work.
The electronic mail stated employees would return to the Cybertruck manufacturing line on Friday, December 6. Tesla additionally stated that some employees wouldn’t observe the adjusted schedule, and people employees can be notified individually.
It is unclear why Tesla has quickly modified the scheduling for the Cybertruck meeting line.
Tesla didn’t reply to a request for remark from Business Insider.
Factory employees on the Cybertruck line stated their schedule had been inconsistent since late October. Four employees instructed Business Insider that a number of instances after arriving at work they’d both been despatched residence or given further coaching workouts or cleansing duties to fill their scheduled work hours.
At least one employee expressed frustration with the schedule adjustments.
“When I began at Tesla you may count on to get time beyond regulation pay, now I really feel fortunate to get 40 hours,” the employee on the Cybertruck line, who’d been with the corporate for a number of years, stated.
When Tesla started deliveries of the Cybertruck final 12 months, the corporate had greater than 2 million reservations, based on Electrek.
There have been indicators that demand for the product might have begun to wane. The carmaker shortened the shifts for employees on its Cybertruck manufacturing line in April, based on a memo considered by BI on the time.
Several reservation holders who have been late to order the Cybertruck have reported receiving supply of the automobile — an indication that Tesla is perhaps going by its reservation checklist sooner than anticipated. After Tesla unveiled the pricing for the automobile final 12 months, a number of reservation-holders instructed BI they did not plan to order the automobile.
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