Dikhyaa Mohanty 
Elon Musk-run Tesla has laid off 229 annotation employees from its Autopilot team and closed one of its offices in the US. The remaining 47 employees may be sent to work in Tesla’s Buffalo Autopilot office.
According to the reports, most of the workers were in moderately low-skilled, low-wage jobs, such as Autopilot data labeling, which involves determining if Tesla’s algorithm identified an object well or poorly. The layoffs are part of the 10 per cent reduction in salaried workforce that Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced last month.
Tesla started laying off salaried employees after Musk’s announcement, which would result in reducing Tesla’s total headcount by roughly 3.5 per cent. Tesla employs more than 1,00,000 people across its facilities. A team of lawyers representing former Tesla employees, who were laid off last month, have sought emergency protection from a US court for the fired workers.
