Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the electric vehicle maker's total headcount will increase over the next 12 months, but the number of salaried staff should be little changed, backtracking from an email just two days ago saying that job cuts of 10 percent were needed.
"Total headcount will increase, but salaried should be fairly flat," Musk tweeted on Saturday in a reply to an unverified Twitter account that made a "prediction" that Tesla's headcount would increase over the next 12 months.
Musk in an email to Tesla executives on Thursday said he has a "super bad feeling" about the U.S. economy and needed to cut jobs by about 10 percent.