Tesla CEO Elon Musk despatched an e mail to “everyone” at his electrical car maker on Monday, expressing concern over the corporate’s present hiring practices.

“I want to acquire a greater understanding of our hiring,” Musk wrote within the e mail. “VPs ought to ship me an inventory of their division hiring requests as soon as per week.”

Tesla staffers learn the e-mail as both a smooth hiring freeze, or a sign that Musk is renewing his concentrate on the automotive firm now that he is named a CEO for Twitter, in accordance with an worker, who requested to stay unnamed in an effort to communicate candidly.

On Friday, Musk stated NBCUniversal advert chief Linda Yaccarino can be Twitter’s new CEO, about six months after he bought the social media firm for $44 billion.

Final month, Tesla reported a greater than 20% drop in first-quarter internet earnings from a 12 months earlier, contributing to a ten% drop within the firm’s inventory value. Musk on the time recommended the corporate would favor increased volumes to increased margins, a remark that prompted some concern from analysts.

“Think twice earlier than sending me a request,” Musk wrote in Monday’s e mail. “Nobody can be part of Tesla, whilst a contractor, till you obtain my e mail approval.”

Musk has usually been concerned in new rent and price range approvals at Tesla since he took over as CEO in 2008.

Electrek, a publication targeted on EVs, beforehand reported on the e-mail. Tesla did not instantly reply to a request for remark.

On Tuesday, Tesla is slated to host its annual shareholder assembly in Austin, Texas. Stakeholders should determine whether or not to approve of latest and outdated board appointments, together with the addition of ex-Tesla expertise chief JB Straubel.

Proxy advisory Glass Lewis advisable final month that shareholders vote towards Straubel, as a result of they did not view him as an acceptable unbiased director given his historical past with the corporate from its early years via 2019, when he resigned.

A separate consortium of atmosphere, social and governance-focused funds additionally urged shareholders to rethink who they appoint to Tesla’s board. Some admonished the corporate’s present board to rein in an “over-committed” CEO in an open letter.

Musk offered billions of {dollars} value of Tesla shares to finance his Twitter takeover, and has courted controversy ever since.

Below Musk’s watch, Twitter restored the accounts of beforehand banned and divisive figures, together with neo-Nazi web site founder Andrew Anglin. In current days, the corporate bowed to calls for to throttle some content material and customers on the app in Turkey, forward of an necessary election there.

Here is Monday’s e mail from Musk:

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