'You have not one time taken responsibility': Employee tells Fisker CEO after being laid off

Henrik Fisker, the CEO and founder of Fisker, was attempting to shirk responsibility of the layoff, employees said. (Image credit: Fisker.Inc)

Henrik Fisker, the CEO and founder of Fisker, was recently slammed by an employee during an all-hands meeting on Wednesday where the American EV company announced another round of layoffs.

According to a Business Insider report, four employees who attended the meeting said that the CEO attempted to shirk responsibility for the latest job cuts, frustrating some of the employees. They felt that he should have taken accountability for how the company had gotten to the brink of bankruptcy.

After the meeting, several employees realised they had been laid off when they lost access to the company's internal systems. They later received an email from human resources notifying them they'd been impacted by the cuts.

Following this, at least one Fisker employee took to the company's internal Microsoft Teams channel to criticise Henrik Fisker's comments, the publication reported. "You have not one time taken responsibility for what's going on at Fisker," the employee wrote in the Teams chat, according to the screenshot accessed by Business Insider. "I am here for eight months and not once did you acknowledge mistakes by our leadership. It's always others."

In the meeting, Henrik Fisker apparently told employees that the decision to lay off employees was not directly his and instead said the choice to implement further job cuts was made by the company's chief restructuring officer John DiDonato.

"The general gist of the meeting was Henrik saying 'These are not my layoffs,'" another employee, who was a part of the meeting told the publication. He too found out soon after that he was laid off.