[lukeqsee]

> Is there really anything that bad about this message to the workforce?

No—there's nothing wrong with it. The results might be bad, though.

2019 will be hard for Tesla and its workforce. When things are hard, people start asking the question "Is it worth it?"

This could very well have been the very best way to handle the business necessity of reducing the workforce by 7%; it just might have some bad consequences that were unavoidable when the available business options are: be unprofitable or layoff workers.

My comment was aimed at the realities (2019 will be hard for Tesla and employees)—not a moral comment on the action of laying off people.

[scoggs]

I've agreed with everything you said not only in this comment I'm replying to but also your original top level one -- it's just that it spurred the thought in my mind to ask the questions I did and say what I said. Hope it didn't come off otherwise.

[lukeqsee]

Nope. :) Just clarifying my parent comment in case it was misunderstood in context of the response. I agreed with your comment, as well.