The company’s staffing problems have been magnified in Germany, where it is unable to meet targets as more workers head for the exit.
Staffing is just the latest setback for Tesla’s Berlin gigafactory, which has already faced a legion of difficulties. Before it opened, it faced environmental protests and court orders over its constructionIn September, the Tesla factory's fire brigade was unable to put out a large cardboard fire itself and called in help from local firefighters. It thenfrom being German engineering graduates’ second preferred employer to sixth.
Tesla’s Berlin gigafactory reached a production benchmark of 2,000 Model Y cars a week at the end of October. This means that gigafactory workers have doubled their output since June. But even if they continue to increase production at that rate, they will still be far off their goal of 5,000 a week by the end of the year.
One of the reasons for this production deficit is the delay of the planned full third-shift system to keep the factory running 24 hours a day, a source familiar with the matter says. This shift was supposed to be implemented in September 2022, but it has reportedly been pushed back. This third shift will require production workers to change their shift patterns every day, across a seven-working-day period.
One former employee, who left Tesla in September alongside other staff members after working there for over a year, describes sudden, unannounced changes in working conditions. The former employee, who requested anonymity to speak openly, had been recruited for a mid-level position via LinkedIn, and had signed a contract to move hundreds of miles to Berlin from a smaller German city.
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