Another 10,000 employees have been laid off by Meta, confirmed Mark Zuckerberg through his Facebook profile. In this way, the Menlo Park firm carries out its second massive personnel cut in four months, after the one carried out in November 2022 and which affected 11,000 workers.
“This will be difficult and there is no way around it. It will mean saying goodbye to talented and passionate colleagues who have been a part of our success. They have dedicated themselves to our mission and I am personally grateful for all their efforts. We will support people in the same way that we have done before and we will treat everyone with the gratitude they deserve, “said the CEO of the company.
The new staff cut announced by Mark Zuckerberg is part of the recently announced strategy, with which Meta aims to make 2023 “the year of effectiveness”. For this reason, the measure not only contemplates dispensing again with thousands of workers. The top executive of the Californian company indicated that around 5,000 jobs for which there were open contracts will also be eliminatedalthough none had yet been finalized.
The new layoffs from Meta will be divided into three stages. The first will start this week and will affect the team in charge of recruiting new employees. A determination that is not surprising, considering that the company was one of the many that slowed down the pace of hiring in recent times. Mark Zuckerberg has promised that those affected by the layoffs will be informed tomorrow.
In April, meanwhile, the company will apply cuts in technology equipment. While at the end of May they will be implemented in the business areas. However, the CEO of Meta has mentioned that, in some special cases, layoffs They will not be effective until the end of the year..
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