So this is the real reason that they had those 'performance-based' layoffs. If you need to fire a certain number of employees, just give bad performance evaluations to those people and fire 'for cause.'
As a company, Tesla can use whatever nonsensical management techniques they want. But firing people 'for cause' will unreasonably hurt otherwise productive people in their future careers. And it will make future candidates far more wary to ever want to work there.
As a company, Tesla can use whatever nonsensical management techniques they want. But firing people 'for cause' will unreasonably hurt otherwise productive people in their future careers. And it will make future candidates far more wary to ever want to work there.