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Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for ‘intense year’ — read the internal memo
CNBC ^ | Jan 14, 2025 | Salvadore Rodriguez

Posted on 01/14/2025 4:20:57 PM PST by dayglored

* Meta is set to cut about 5% of its workforce, focusing on the company’s lowest-performing workers, CNBC confirmed Tuesday.

* CEO Mark Zuckerberg informed employees about the decision to “move out low performers faster” in a memo posted on the company’s internal Workplace forum on Tuesday.

* Zuckerberg told employees 2025 will “be an intense year.”

Meta is set to cut about 5% of its workforce, focusing on the company’s lowest-performing staffers, CNBC confirmed Tuesday.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg informed employees about the decision to “move out low performers faster” in a memo posted on the company’s internal Workplace forum on Tuesday. Zuckerberg told employees 2025 will “be an intense year.”

The company specified that it is “exiting approximately 5% of our lowest performers” in a separate message posted by a company director. Meta has more than 72,000 employees, according to its most recent quarterly report.

Meta said employees affected by the layoffs will be notified by Feb. 10 and receive severance in line with what the company has provided previously. The cuts represent Meta’s largest layoffs since it eliminated 21,000 jobs, or nearly a quarter of its workforce, in 2022 and 2023.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigtech; facebook; labor; layoffs; magnificent7; markzuckerberg; meta; socialmedia; zuckerberg
Not as big a cut as in prior years, but it's only two weeks into the new year so there's plenty of time for more cuts.

It's notable that these cuts indicate interest in ... dare we say it... "merit"?

1 posted on 01/14/2025 4:20:57 PM PST by dayglored
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To: dayglored
Looks like "read the internal memo" requires going to Bloomberg, which requires a subscription. But you get the idea....

If somebody has a link that's not behind a subscription/paywall, please post it in the comments. Thanks.

2 posted on 01/14/2025 4:23:21 PM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: dayglored
“move out low performers faster” in a memo posted on the company’s internal Workplace forum>

Lets see....

Could that be H1B employees

Or maybe DEI salackers....inquiring minds seek to know.,

3 posted on 01/14/2025 4:57:17 PM PST by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeons)
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To: spokeshave

All of the above?

He told Rogan et al he was moving away from censorship towards an X-like Community Notes model. That would seem to open things up for elimination of a *lot* of DEI censors.


4 posted on 01/14/2025 6:08:50 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: dayglored

5% is not *intense*.


5 posted on 01/14/2025 6:08:55 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: dayglored

So Musk has been schooling all of Silicon Valley with the hatchet he took to Twitter! Way to go, Elon! Teaching them things they don’t learn in B-School!


6 posted on 01/14/2025 6:15:58 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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To: spokeshave

“DEI salackers”

Did you mistype “salamanders”?


7 posted on 01/14/2025 6:16:52 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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To: dayglored

“Meta is set to cut about 5% of its workforce”

They don’t have a workforce. They have a wokeforce.

This may be an attempt to rectify the situation.


8 posted on 01/14/2025 6:21:57 PM PST by unlearner (Still not tired of winning.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Seems like the other big two want to be in the Elon Club.


9 posted on 01/14/2025 6:45:53 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

H-1B visas, replacement theory is real.

Let’s not be nattering nabob of negativism! Our hardworking, skilled, swarthy guests may bring over fascinating new additions to our culture—like the Kailrubba Dung Flinging festival in southern India.
It’s a lot like a snowball fight, just a lot smellier.


10 posted on 01/14/2025 11:51:54 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: dayglored
Good luck finding your next job.

Meta (Facebook) fired me because my job performance was in the Bottom 5%.

11 posted on 01/15/2025 1:41:56 AM PST by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost Wisc, Mich, and Penn, by 230,000 votes.)
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To: unlearner

Women and minorities hardest hit?

EC


12 posted on 01/15/2025 6:05:23 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: zeestephen

Yeah, not exactly a resume enhancer.


13 posted on 01/15/2025 6:54:39 AM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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