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Tesla Lays Off 200 Autopilot Workers, Shutters Its San Mateo Office

• https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden

That's because yesterday, in the midst of a now weeks-long period of silence for Elon Musk on Twitter, it was reported that Tesla was laying off about 200 jobs related to Autopilot and closing its San Mateo office, where Autopilot was the focus. 

Two employees told CNBC that they knew the company's lease was heading toward its end on the office. 

The CNBC report said that the jobs were likely "data annotation" jobs, which "involves identifying and describing objects in short clips that were captured by cameras and sensors on Tesla vehicles", in addition to labeling data.

Data labelers are also responsible for logging overlapping objects and their effectiveness as employees is rated on how many clips they can annotate over short periods of time. 

An employee told CNBC they expected to be moved to Palo Alto, but not to lose their job. In a audio recording of a Tesla meeting, a manager tells employees "You knew our lease was ending here in San Mateo," before telling them the company has put a "restructure in place" and that their "positions were impacted". 

Employees were told that June 28 would be their last day. 


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