(Reuters) – Tesla (NASDAQ:) Inc Chief Govt Elon Musk mentioned on Saturday that the electrical car maker’s complete headcount will improve over the following 12 months, however the variety of salaried employees must be little modified.

“Complete headcount will improve, however salaried must be pretty flat,” Musk tweeted https://twitter.com/elonmusk/standing/1533176789022957568 in a reply to an unverified Twitter (NYSE:) account that made a “prediction” that Tesla’s headcount would improve over the following 12 months.

Musk’s tweet comes two days after he wrote in an e-mail to Tesla executives, which was seen by Reuters, that he has a “tremendous dangerous feeling” in regards to the U.S. financial system and wanted to chop about 10% of employees on the firm, Reuters reported on Friday.

In one other e-mail to workers on Friday, Musk mentioned Tesla can be lowering salaried headcount by 10%, because it has turn out to be “overstaffed in lots of areas.” However “hourly headcount will improve,” he mentioned.

Tesla’s shares closed down 9.2% on Friday.

In line with a Tesla U.S. regulatory submitting, the corporate and its subsidiaries had nearly 100,000 workers on the finish of 2021.