Elon Musk lately shared a slightly fascinating replace on Twitter — his firms now make use of about 110,000 individuals worldwide. That is fairly spectacular contemplating that within the grand scheme of issues, Tesla, SpaceX, and Musk’s different ventures are nonetheless simply getting began.
Musk’s replace got here as a response to a TSLA bull on Twitter who inquired if his firms had already reached the 100,000-employee milestone. Musk’s response revealed that his firms had not solely met their 100,000 worker mark — they’d already handed it.
Elon Musk didn’t share additional particulars about his firms’ worldwide worker headcount, although there’s a good likelihood that the lion’s share of his staff right now are in america and China. These are the 2 nations the place Tesla, one in every of Musk’s largest firms, has operational car manufacturing vegetation, in spite of everything.
Contemplating that Tesla is but to begin operations in its two new car manufacturing amenities in Europe and Texas, the EV maker’s worldwide worker headcount would most likely develop much more quickly within the close to future. Gigafactory Berlin remains to be anticipated to begin Mannequin Y manufacturing in Germany later this 12 months, and the identical is true for Giga Texas. Each amenities are anticipated to make use of hundreds of staff as they ramp their car manufacturing and as they launch their very own devoted battery cell vegetation.
It also needs to be famous that the roughly 110,000 staff that Elon Musk talked about are solely these instantly employed by his firms per se. The numbers for oblique jobs associated to his tasks, reminiscent of Tesla’s provide chain, are seemingly much more spectacular.
Elon Musk’s different firms reminiscent of SpaceX and The Boring Firm are additionally increasing their workforce, as they try extra bold tasks such because the Starship program and the expansions to the Vegas Loop. Different firms associated to Musk reminiscent of Neuralink are additionally actively hiring to increase its workforce.
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