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https://www.wsj.com/articles/meta-is-preparing-to-notify-employees-of-large-scale-layoffs-this-week-11667767794
WSJ ^ | Nov 6th, 2022 | Jeff Horwitz

Posted on 11/06/2022 5:18:37 PM PST by libh8er

Meta Platforms Inc. is planning to begin large-scale layoffs this week, according to people familiar with the matter, in what could be the largest round in a recent spate of tech job cuts after the industry’s rapid growth during the pandemic.

The layoffs are expected to affect many thousands of employees and an announcement is planned to come as soon as Wednesday, according to the people. Meta reported more than 87,000 employees at the end of September. Company officials already told employees to cancel nonessential travel beginning this week, the people said.

The planned layoffs would be the first broad head-count reductions to occur in the company’s 18-year history. While smaller on a percentage basis than the cuts at Twitter Inc. this past week, which hit about half of that company’s staff, the number of Meta employees expected to lose their jobs could be the largest to date at a major technology corporation in a year that has seen a tech-industry retrenchment.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: facebook; layoffs; learnhowtopost; meta

1 posted on 11/06/2022 5:18:37 PM PST by libh8er
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To: libh8er

And they didn’t even have to change the leader


2 posted on 11/06/2022 5:19:58 PM PST by xp38 (!)
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To: libh8er

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4106776/posts?page=17#17


3 posted on 11/06/2022 5:20:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: libh8er

First, it was Twitter. Next comes Facecrook, aka Meta. Who’s next? Google??

Hopefully, ICE agents will be waiting at the exit doors to escort the H1B gang to a waiting plane en route to Nocrap, India.


4 posted on 11/06/2022 5:21:34 PM PST by Ratman0823 ("Failure is not an option"... Unless you are a RINO!)
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To: libh8er

Already notified mod for fixing title.


5 posted on 11/06/2022 5:22:24 PM PST by libh8er
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To: libh8er

CIA money might be drying up. Gotta start cutting staff.


6 posted on 11/06/2022 5:23:15 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: libh8er

What is best in life? To crush your enemies and see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.


7 posted on 11/06/2022 5:24:45 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Ain’t it funny how what goes around comes around ?


8 posted on 11/06/2022 5:25:10 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: libh8er

Well, learn to code. Oh. Wait.


9 posted on 11/06/2022 5:25:45 PM PST by 3RIVRS
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To: hinckley buzzard
Love that quote   :-))
10 posted on 11/06/2022 5:27:11 PM PST by tomkat ( SOTU = FUBAR)
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To: libh8er
The economy is great! - Brandon

There’s going to be a lot more of this unfortunately. We are at the beginning of bad economic times, not even close to the end.

11 posted on 11/06/2022 5:27:33 PM PST by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: xp38

Oh no. Elon Musk is all powerful!!


12 posted on 11/06/2022 5:29:41 PM PST by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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To: Col Frank Slade

Zuck really isn’t that bright. He got where he is by luck, and that luck is running out.


13 posted on 11/06/2022 5:43:59 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (CNN)
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To: libh8er

Not a problem, they can get a job at Twitter.

...oh, never mind.


14 posted on 11/06/2022 5:55:40 PM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 37 degrees)
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To: libh8er

“Meta reported more than 87,000 employees at the end of September.”

My leftist neighbor posts there. He does the work, they get the paychecks.


15 posted on 11/06/2022 6:09:34 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Ratman0823

ICE won’t have time to handle the H1B visa holders. They and DOJ will be busy writing their own twits and posting their own fakebook content since their in kind services will be terminated.


16 posted on 11/06/2022 6:15:26 PM PST by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: Ratman0823
Hopefully, ICE agents will be waiting at the exit doors to escort the H1B gang to a waiting plane en route to Nocrap, India.

The layoffs will hit high-cost American employees working in the US. That's the case with all layoffs - the highest-cost employees are the usual targets. H1B employees are likely to be safe, since they don't make as much.
17 posted on 11/06/2022 6:26:16 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

You nailed it. He was fortunate with timing and badly managed competition (myspace and friendster), but he’s not a tested leader. His myopic focus on the metaverse is recipe for failure - technology, process, usage, etc. Many big egos have fallen before him.


18 posted on 11/06/2022 7:05:06 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: libh8er

Is it a coincidence that the IRS is going to be hiring 87,000 new agents?


19 posted on 11/07/2022 11:47:05 AM PST by PsechsySr
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