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Tesla started Friday to furlough its sales and delivery workforce — with the least experienced employees bearing the brunt of the action — days after a companywide email announced salary cuts and reductions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Several employees, who work in sales and delivery and spoke to TechCrunch on condition of anonymity, reported they were on corporate calls in which more details of the furloughs were explained. Performance is less of a factor. Instead, experience and position is being used to determine who stays and who is furloughed. Delivery and sales advisors who have been with the company less than two years will be furloughed, according to sources.
CNBC reported earlier Friday that furloughs would impact half of Tesla’s U.S. delivery and sales workforce. TechCrunch was unable to verify the total number of sales and delivery employees who would be impacted.
The furloughs also come a little more than a week after the end of the quarter, a typically busy time for delivery staff who try to meet lofty internal goals. COVID-19 hampered delivery efforts, although customers were still reporting deliveries in California, New York and other states.
The furlough calls have been expected since an internal email sent April 7 by Tesla’s head of human resources Valerie Workman informed employees that the company would be cutting pay for salaried employees and furloughing others.
It wasn’t clear, until Friday, exactly who might be affected.
The internal email, which was viewed by TechCrunch, told employees that production at its U.S. factories would be suspended until at least May 4 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, requiring the company to cut costs.
Salaried employees will have pay reduced between 30% and 10%, depending on their position. The salary reductions are expected to be in place until the end of the second quarter, according to the email. The salary cuts and furloughs will begin April 13. Employees who cannot work from home and have not been assigned critical onsite positions will be furloughed until May 4, according to the email.
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Nokia 4.2 and Nokia 3.2 users rejoice. The smartphones have started receiving the Android 10 update. You should see a notification on your smartphone stating that the update is available. If not, you can go into the settings and manually check for the update on the smartphone. With the addition of the Nokia 4.2 and 3.2, nine smartphones from Nokia are running on the latest OS. These include the Nokia 8.1, Nokia 7.2, Nokia 7 Plus, Nokia 7.1, Nokia 6.1 Plus, Nokia 6.1, Nokia 4.2, Nokia 3.2 and Nokia 2.2.
The update on the Nokia 4.2 and 3.2 brings with it a bunch of new features as well. Users get access to gesture navigation and smart reply which are a part of Android 10. Users also get access to better privacy controls all in one place along with the ability to control location access to apps – be that always, just while in use, or never. Focus mode is also available in Beta. This lets users block out distracting apps when they need to concentrate on what’s important. Users also get access to Family Link which is now a part of the Digital Wellbeing settings.
Coming to the specifications, the Nokia 4.2 features a 5.71-inch HD+ LCD display with a U-shaped notch. The handset is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 mobile platform. It integrates a notification light in the power button, which is placed on the phone’s right edge, and it comes equipped with a dedicated Google Assistant button as well. The Nokia 4.2 sports dual cameras on the back. There is a 13MP sensor that is paired with an f/2.2 aperture lens and a 2MP secondary depth sensor that gets an f/2.2 aperture. The handset runs on a 3000mAh battery that can be charged via a micro USB port. It also supports face unlock and comes with a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor.
The Nokia 3.2, on the other hand, features a 6.26-inch HD+ display with a U-shaped notch with a 1520x720p resolution. Just like the Nokia 4.2, it also features a dedicated Google Assistant button and a 'breathing light' power button notification light. Under the hood, the smartphone is powered by the Snapdragon 429 SoC. The Nokia 3.2 is a dual SIM smartphone running on Android 9 Pie out-of-the-box. When it comes to the camera, the smartphone has a single 13MP sensor on the back with an f/2.2 aperture and a 5MP fixed-focus shooter in the front. The smartphone has a 4000mAh battery and comes equipped with a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor. The rear-mounted fingerprint sensor is available only on the 32GB variant.
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Quite expectedly, India recorded a notable decline in internet speeds in March, primarily because of the stress the networks are under with so many people working from home. The mean mobile download speed fell by 1.68Mbps while mean broadband mobile speeds fell by 3.67Mbps, according to Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index.
The report states that with the networks under strain during the unprecedented lockdown period in India to curb the coronavirus menace, it is natural to see some level of slowdown.
Just how big of a decline are we talking about? India slipped two ranks down for mobile internet speeds and now ranks at 130th. Even in the broadband speed index, India declined two spots compared to the previous month. We’re at rank 71 globally in broadband speeds.
As for mean mobile download speeds, India posted a decline of 1.68Mbps. Mobile download speeds went from 11.83Mbps in February to 10.15Mbps in March 2020 according to the report. Similarly, mean broadband speeds fell from 39.65Mbps to 35.98Mbps.
To be fair, broadband speeds have been seeing a decline since the beginning of 2020. It came down from 41.48Mbps in January to 35.98Mbps in February, showing a drop of 5.5Mbps in speed.
“It is important to note that while the internet itself should handle elevated usage, there may be impacts to speed as people continue to move their daily activities increasingly online. While the core of the internet remains stable, some ISP networks may struggle to keep up,” Ookla CEO Doug Suttles said in a statement about the report.
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