Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Saturday that the electric vehicle maker’s total headcount will expand over the next 12 months, but the number of salaried employees will remain unchanged, reversing an email sent just two days earlier that said employment cutbacks of 10% were required.

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“Total headcount will increase, but salaried should be fairly flat,” Musk tweeted in response to an unverified Twitter account’s “prediction” that Tesla’s workforce would increase in the following year.

Musk stated in an email to Tesla executives on Thursday, which Reuters obtained on Friday, that he has a “super bad feeling” about the US economy and that he needs to eliminate employees by approximately 10%.

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Musk stated in another email to employees on Friday that Tesla would cut salaried personnel by 10% since it had grown “overstaffed in many areas.” However, he stated that “hourly headcount will increase.”

Tesla’s stock dropped 9.2 percent on the announcement on Friday.

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Tesla and its subsidiaries had about 100,000 employees at the end of 2021, according to a Tesla US regulatory filing.

In an email to Tesla employees on Wednesday, Musk gave a deadline to return to the office for a minimum of 40 hours per week, ahead of his emails on workforce levels. He wrote that failure to do so would be interpreted as resignation.

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Musk announced on Thursday that Tesla’s AI day has been pushed back to September 30, and that a model of Optimus, a humanoid robot that is a business priority, might be completed by then and launched next year.