{"id":22958,"date":"2023-05-16T11:21:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T11:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/107241403"},"modified":"2023-05-16T11:21:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T11:21:24","slug":"tesla-ceo-elon-musk-says-he-must-approve-all-new-hires-in-internal-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-says-he-must-approve-all-new-hires-in-internal-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he must approve all new hires in internal email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-107241093\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>SpaceX, Twitter and electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk meets with France&#8217;s President Emmanuel Macron (L) at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris on May 15, 2023.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p><span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Tesla<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> CEO <span class=\"waslinkname\">Elon Musk<\/span> sent an email to &#8220;everybody&#8221; at his electric vehicle maker on Monday, expressing concern over the company&#8217;s current hiring practices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to gain a better understanding of our hiring,&#8221; Musk wrote in the email. &#8220;VPs should send me a list of their department hiring requests once a week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tesla staffers read the email as either a soft hiring freeze, or a signal that Musk is renewing his focus on the car company now that he&#8217;s named a CEO for Twitter, according to an employee, who asked to remain unnamed in order to speak candidly.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Musk <span class=\"waslinkname\">said<\/span> NBCUniversal ad chief Linda Yaccarino&nbsp;would be Twitter&#8217;s new CEO, about six months after he purchased the social media company for $44 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Tesla <span class=\"waslinkname\">reported<\/span> a more than 20% drop in first-quarter net income from a year earlier, contributing to a 10% drop in the company&#8217;s stock price. Musk at the time suggested the company would prefer higher volumes to higher margins, a comment that prompted&nbsp;<span class=\"waslinkname\">some concern<\/span>&nbsp;from analysts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Think carefully before sending me a request,&#8221; Musk wrote in Monday&#8217;s email. &#8220;No one can join Tesla, even as a contractor, until you receive my email approval.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk has generally been involved in new hire and budget approvals at Tesla since he took over as CEO in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"waslinkname\">Electrek<\/span>, a publication focused on EVs, previously reported on the email. Tesla didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Tesla is slated to host its annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas. Stakeholders must decide whether to approve of new and old board appointments, including the addition of ex-Tesla technology chief JB Straubel.<\/p>\n<p>Proxy advisory Glass Lewis&nbsp;recommended last month that shareholders <span class=\"waslinkname\">vote against<\/span> Straubel, because they didn&#8217;t view him as an appropriate independent director given his history with the company from its early years through 2019, when he resigned.<\/p>\n<p>A separate consortium of environment, social and governance-focused funds also urged shareholders to reconsider who they appoint to Tesla&#8217;s board. Some admonished the company&#8217;s current board to rein in an &#8220;over-committed&#8221; CEO <span class=\"waslinkname\">in an open letter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Musk <span class=\"waslinkname\">sold billions<\/span> of dollars worth of Tesla shares to finance his Twitter takeover, and has courted controversy ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Under Musk&#8217;s watch, Twitter restored the accounts of previously banned and divisive figures, including neo-Nazi website founder Andrew Anglin. In recent days, the company bowed to demands to <span class=\"waslinkname\">throttle some content<\/span> and users on the app in Turkey, ahead of an important election there.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Monday&#8217;s email from Musk:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ArticleBody-blockquote\">\n<p>To: Everybody<\/p>\n<p>From: Elon Musk<\/p>\n<p>Subj. Hiring<\/p>\n<p>Date: May 15, 2023<\/p>\n<p>I would like to gain a better understanding of our hiring. VPs should send me a list of their department hiring requests once a week.<\/p>\n<p>Think carefully before sending me a request. No one can join Tesla, even as a contractor, until you receive my email approval.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Elon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>WATCH: <\/strong><span class=\"waslinkname\">Tesla has major growth behind it<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"Placeholder-ArticleBody-Video-107240594\">\n<div role=\"button\" id=\"Placeholder-ArticleBody-Video-107240594\" class=\"PlaceHolder-wrapper\" data-vilynx-id=\"7000298985\" data-test=\"VideoPlaceHolder\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-videoEmbed\" id=\"InlineVideo-0\" data-test=\"InlineVideo\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-inlineThumbnailContainer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-says-he-must-approve-all-new-hires-in-internal-email.jpg\" alt=\"Tesla has major growth behind it, says EMJ's Eric Jackson\"><span class=\"InlineVideo-videoButton\"><\/span><span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX, Twitter and electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk meets with France&#8217;s President Emmanuel Macron (L) at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris on May 15, 2023.&nbsp; Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent an email to &#8220;everybody&#8221; at his electric vehicle maker on Monday, expressing concern over the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22958"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=22958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}