Workers at the Tesla factory in Texas are expected to decrease by 22% in 2025

The total number of workers at Tesla’s factory outside Austin, Texas fell sharply last year as the company experienced its second consecutive year of declining sales, according to a follow-up report. featured in the Austin American-Statesman.

Tesla plans to hire 21,191 people at the factory in 2024 to 16,506 in 2025, a drop of 22%. This is despite the global workforce growing from 125,665 employees 2024 for 134,785 employees in 2025according to filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

It is unclear which groups were most affected by Tesla’s retrenchment of factory workers. But the company has been one of the biggest employers in the Austin area since it opened the factory in 2022. CEO Elon Musk also moved Tesla’s headquarters to the factory in 2021 before it opened. The company has invested more than $6.3 billion in the space so far, according to the new report.