Tesla has service centers and dealerships in Houston that could be impacted to changes the company made last week.
Tesla's layoffs include an undetermined number of Houston-area employees.
The nation's largest manufacturer of electric vehicles let go about ten-percent of its workforce this week.
The company emailed the affected workers early Monday that they were out of a job.
Many of the thousands of cuts involve employees at Tesla's headquarters and factory in Austin, as well as Houston-area service centers.
Local workers say the layoffs came without warning other than a recent slowdown in their workload.
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