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Just like China is showing the entire world why not everything is rosy about a very pronounced population boom, Tesla is doing the same thing on a much smaller scale.
In the Silicone Valley company’s case, the population is represented by the number of its employees. When it’s not luring great minds from other rivaling firms such as Google (it also goes the other way around), Tesla is constantly hiring people to fill the ever-growing personnel needs of its blossoming business.
The thing is, its headhunting campaign has reached such a pace that the Palo Alto headquarters are simply running out of parking spaces to accommodate all the employees’ cars. Not to mention the infinite line forming at the charging stations, we’d imagine.
To quickly solve the situation, The Wall Street Journal says that Tesla Motors is now employing a valet service that takes custody of the employee’s car at the building’s entrance, and then goes on to park it at a remote location. From an efficiency point of view, this is even better than expanding the parking lot, as it saves time and effort for the men and women working for Tesla, time that could be put to better use than navigating through a parking lot looking for a spot.
But the parking situation can only get worse. During the span of nearly six years, the total number of Tesla employees has jumped from 899 to 14,000. And, as we’ve said, the hiring process isn’t over, with 1,600 positions currently open and another 4,500 planned over the next four years. And we’re only sticking to the company’s California-based activity.
But fret not, Elon Musk is on the job. He’s made his intentions of building a larger headquarters edifice in California known, but there is no timeframe on that yet. Give the man a brake. He is building the world’s second largest building by volume, after all, and we’re talking here about the very appropriately named Tesla Gigafactory.
The thing is, its headhunting campaign has reached such a pace that the Palo Alto headquarters are simply running out of parking spaces to accommodate all the employees’ cars. Not to mention the infinite line forming at the charging stations, we’d imagine.
To quickly solve the situation, The Wall Street Journal says that Tesla Motors is now employing a valet service that takes custody of the employee’s car at the building’s entrance, and then goes on to park it at a remote location. From an efficiency point of view, this is even better than expanding the parking lot, as it saves time and effort for the men and women working for Tesla, time that could be put to better use than navigating through a parking lot looking for a spot.
But the parking situation can only get worse. During the span of nearly six years, the total number of Tesla employees has jumped from 899 to 14,000. And, as we’ve said, the hiring process isn’t over, with 1,600 positions currently open and another 4,500 planned over the next four years. And we’re only sticking to the company’s California-based activity.
But fret not, Elon Musk is on the job. He’s made his intentions of building a larger headquarters edifice in California known, but there is no timeframe on that yet. Give the man a brake. He is building the world’s second largest building by volume, after all, and we’re talking here about the very appropriately named Tesla Gigafactory.
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