Meta has already started the round of layoffs he announced in mid -Januaryand will leave several thousand of its employees without work based on their performance With the aim of saving funds to raise your investment in AI, although it will also cover at least part of the positions that are vacant. According to Business Insider, affected employees in the United States, Asia and Europe have already begun to receive their dismissal notifications.
Meta has pointed out that he wants to reduce 5% of his workforce, which will affect approximately 4,000 of his workers. Those in the United States will offer compensation that includes 16 weeks of salary and two others for each year they have worked in the company.
The news of the layoffs, shortly after several ads for suppression of diversity and inclusion initiatives, as well as the statements of its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg asking for more “masculinity” in companies after announcing changes in their moderation system and leaving The open door that various groups can receive insults in their networks, fell like a jug of cold water in the template. The environment in the company, in fact, seems to have changed a lot in recent weeks.
As several employees of the company have declared, who have asked not to be identified, the focus on efficiency is generating anxiety. One emphasizes that CEO is generating fear, and «Creating a culture in which you have to lift him or if not, you have to attend to the consequences«. Another has come to comment that now working in goal “is like living in a george orwell novel.”
Several have stated that colleagues who had a good performance have been disappearing from the company all year, and when they ask for them they only tell them that they no longer work there. In addition, they point out that self -censorship is increasing, and that the human side of its work is disappearing. Nor do they believe that these layoffs should be labeled as for low performance, because it harms those affected and damages their reputation.
Those affected will receive an email from their work mail and staff, which will also include details about their compensation, and will lose access to the company’s systems an hour after being informed. But employees from various European countries will be exempt from this process because their layoffs must comply with local regulations. In their cases, local performance management procedures will be followed.
In addition to the layoffs, goal will reorganize some of its divisions and areas. So, You will merge your Facebook and Messenger teams. In addition, the reality Labs division, which has lost almost 60,000 million since 2020, will be more integrated in the main business area, in a step that reverses the organization proposed by Zuckerberg in 2021.
