Tech News Desk – The phase of retrenchment in Facebook is not stopping, now the sword hangs on 6 thousand jobs, in fact Meta is ready to start a new round of retrenchment. The company’s President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg informed the employees and others during the company’s meeting. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that the next round of layoffs would begin in May 2023. Now even before its official announcement its information has been leaked online. Let us tell you why the company is now laying off so many people. Is firing happening and how many employees lost their jobs in the earlier retrenchment. Check out the full details of the layoffs done by Meta in 2 years here.
Meta to hire 6,000 workers next week
According to reports, around 6,000 employees will be laid off from Meta next week. The company fired 11,000 employees in November and announced 10,000 job cuts in March 2023. Facebook’s parent company Meta has axed 4,000 employees, which means another 6,000 people remain on the list to be asked to leave in May.
Meta has been trimmed before
Earlier in April, Zuckerberg had asked Meta to fire several thousand employees to make some team changes to improve the company’s performance. And in March it was decided to lay off 10,000 employees to reduce company costs. Now in the latest round of retrenchment, 6,000 employees will lose their jobs.
Mota’s biggest layoff was in 2022
Meta did the biggest layoff in the year 2022 in November. The company had laid off 11,000 people. In such a situation, there has been a decrease of 13 percent in the workforce of Meta. Zuckerberg wanted to coordinate the company’s technologist-engineers and business-administration staff.