Meta is preparing big layoffs: The company is going to slow down about 5 percent their employees all over the world. In a note to employees, the CEO said Mark Zuckerberg announced that he had decided to “faster dismissing employees with poor performancei” – reports “The Guardian”. The note shows that the giant will employ new people to replace the weakest employees.
Zuckerberg raises the bar: Bloomberg calculates that according to the latest financial report Meta employed 72,000 people worldwide at the end of September last year. This means that the planned cuts may affect 3,600 employees of the internet giant. – I decided to raise the bar in the field of performance management – Zuckerberg was said to have said in an internal memo to employees.
First decisions in February: About who will lose their job at Meta, employees in USA They are to be informed on February 10. Employed in Zuckerberg's empire from other countries around the world will learn about it at a later date. Owner Methy stressed that the company is facing an “intense year”hence the acceleration in the “standard management system”. Typically, employees were assessed on an annual basis, but now this period has been shortened.
The meta introduces big changes: “The Guardian” notes that information about the layoffs appeared shortly after Mark Zuckerberg announced the big ones changes in Meta's social media. Facebook, Instagram and Threadssimplify the rules regarding content published on them “and get rid of many restrictions on topics such as migration and gender“.
Zuckerberg follows in Musk's footsteps: The changes will include, among others, the resignation of USA from professionals who verify content on the platform, the so-called fact-checkers. Instead on Meta platforms, like X Elon Muskthe tool will appear community notes. Meta will also stop actively looking for hate speech and other policy violations. They are to be verified only after user reports.
See also: What is the owner of platform X planning? More in the text entitled “Elon Musk may expand his empire. China is looking for a contingency plan”.
Sources: Bloomberg, “The Guardian”.