The electric-vehicle maker has reportedly moved some of its 350 workers at the facility to another location in recent weeks

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Tesla Autopilot in operation. (Credit: Ian Maddox/Wikipedia)

Tesla has reportedly laid off nearly 200 workers from its Autopilot division and closed its office in San Mateo, California, US.

A significant number of the layoffs were hourly jobs, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

The staff at the San Mateo office worked on customer vehicle data assessments for the Autopilot driver-assistance features.

The electric-vehicle maker has moved some of its 350 workers at the facility to another location in recent weeks, the publication reported.

The latest layoffs have impacted those worked on one of key features in Tesla vehicles.

Tesla’s employees at its Buffalo, New York, and San Mateo offices were engaged in labelling images for cars and the environment they travel.

The company has expanded its Autopilot data-labelling teams in Buffalo, Bloomberg added.

Recently, Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk revealed plans to reduce 10% of salaried staff and increase the count of hourly workers, taking into account the challenging economic conditions.

Based in Austin, Texas, Tesla had increased its total global headcount to about 100,000, opening new factories in Austin and Berlin.

In May this year, a class-action lawsuit in a US district court was filed by some shareholders of Twitter over Musk’s actions before and after proposing a $44bn deal to acquire the social media company.

The lawsuit accused Musk of violating California corporate laws on various aspects by manipulating Twitter’s stock price in an effort to renegotiate the consideration.

According to the lawsuit, Musk failed to timely disclose his stake of over 9% in Twitter. The billionaire also failed to reveal that he was invited to join the board of the social media firm, stated the lawsuit.

In April, Musk signed an all-cash deal to acquire Twitter through an entity fully owned by him.