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Tesla Motors is building a plant in Gruenheide, near Berlin, which will initially have 7,000 employees, the first cars are expected to roll off the assembly lines in July and by 2022 total production should be 500,000 cars. . By the end of 2022, the total workforce is expected to reach 12,000 people.
Elon Musk and his men thought it would be easy to find people willing to work for Tesla, especially since it is a famous and well-paid company. However, this was not the case at all, and hiring is difficult, especially when it comes to highly skilled individuals.
For example, eight months before production starts, 5,000 of the 7,000 workers must be hired and 100 engineers must be hired.
One of the reasons is related to the working climate in the factory, because production has begun to prepare and some of those who work say that the pressure exerted by the bosses is enormous and that they often have to stay overtime.
Elon Musk is also known to be extremely strict in terms of management style and asked directors to be the same. There are also reports that Musk fired people when he was very angry.
Other widely cited reports in the German press show that many managers have already left the German plant, not even a few months after hiring, which is not good for the continuity of the project. The organization in the factory where “chaos reigns” is also criticized.
The press wrote that the director in charge of the plant’s construction works was fired because he allegedly contradicted Musk in a meeting, which the CEO does not accept. Then ten managers chose not to continue and another ten are personally monitored by Musk, who will make the decision personally.
So extremely good engineers already work for companies like BMW, Audi or Mercedes and they would have no reason to come to Tesla Motors where they don’t know how they will be treated and how long they will have to stay overtime.
Furthermore, Tesla is not even required to submit to the collective bargaining agreement in Germany, and the powerful IG Metall union, with 2.3 million members, wants things to change. German finance minister Brandenburg also wants Tesla to abide by these collective bargaining rules, but Musk doesn’t want to know anything about it.
Musk is famous for the way he manages to mobilize everything and the general opinion is that Tesla Motors will manage to start production in the summer. In addition, the investment is important for the region because it will create another 8,000 jobs at suppliers and Tesla would also like to produce batteries.
Surse: Automotive News, Reuters, Automobilwoche
