- Meta began to reduce thousands of jobs to focus on IA investment and efficiency.
- Mark Zuckerberg targets the low interpreters, part of a broader evolution towards lighter operations.
- Some employees told Business Insider that they were worried about changes.
Meta began to reduce thousands of jobs while the social media giant adopts a more difficult position on underperformant employees and prepares its finances for another year of AI investment. Employees affected in Europe, Asia and the United States began to be informed, in an internal view of Business Insider.
The company said that it would eliminate around 5% of its workforce, which could mean that nearly 4,000 employees will lose their jobs.
The CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, told staff in January that he “raises the bar” and would move quickly to remove the low performers, according to an internal note seen by Bi.
This is part of a wider thrust of large technological companies to get thinner, after a hiring wave during the pandemic. Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce and others are Elimination collectively Thousands of employees.
Zuckerberg was at the forefront of this, announcing a “year of efficiency” in 2023 which continued until last year and in 2025. Wall Street rewarded Meta for this new goal, sending the Actions of the Arrow company since the beginning of 2023 – a run, which added more than 1 dollars billion to the assessment of the Meta market.
While Meta has remained profitable in the last periods of heavy job and major expenses, the company is now being raced to follow its competitors in the generative race of the AI. This requires billions of dollars in infrastructure and related investment. It probably puts pressure on Zuckerberg to seek savings elsewhere.
A Meta spokesperson refused to comment.
Impact on certain employees
For some meta-employees, the current efficiency reader causes anxiety. These staff members asked not to be identified to discuss sensitive subjects.
“Mark creates fear,” said a current Meta employed in BI. “He creates a culture where you have to be faithful to him or else.”
Another employee told Bi that working in Meta at the moment “has the impression of living in a novel by George Orwell”.
Even colleagues who have performed well “have disappeared all year round, and when you wonder, you are told that” they are no longer with the “”, said that person. “Self -censorship is endemic. In a company supposed to be devoted to the connection of people, the human side of our work disappears and everyone acts more robotic.”
Another Meta employee said that discounts should not be qualified as performance -based cuts, as it could potentially harm people’s reputation because they are looking for other opportunities.
“Now people have to go back to the labor market with an incredibly unfair label,” added this person.
They expressed their concern that the right employees were cut just to meet quotas, and that it could have a negative impact on morale in Meta.
“What is the incitement to help a new rental to accelerate if it will simply classify us and redo all this next year?” This person added.
How Meta’s latest job cuts can work
The job cuts are designed to target employees who receive notes from “some” or “have not encountered”, the two lower categories of Meta’s evaluation system, in their performance reviews.
According to the internal guidelines obtained by BI last month, managers must identify 12% of 15% of employees eligible for these notes. Meta aims to reach 10% “Unregable attrition” By combining these cuts with previous departures. For example, if a team had 5% attrition in 2024, managers should identify 7% at 10% of their employees for lower ratings to reach the total objective.
A Meta employee said to BI that forcing managers to place team members in the lower categories for job cuts had propagated anxiety in the management ranks as well as for basic workers.
Employees received a memo note from Janelle Gale, Meta vice-president of Meta, on Friday, detailing how the process is supposed to work. According to the memo, which has been obtained by BI, the employees concerned will be informed by their work and their personal email addresses and will lose access to the company’s systems within the hour according to their information. They will receive information on dismissal packages in the same e-mail.
Notifications will be staggered through time zones, employees in Asia-Pacific being informed first, followed by Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and finally North America and Latin.
Employees of European countries, including Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands, will be exempt from this process due to local regulations and will rather follow local performance management processes. Meta intends to fill these roles, but the memo indicates that plans and deadlines “can vary”, depending on the memo.
How meta is reorganized
Although these cuts occur, the social media giant also reorganizes some of its companies and divisions. Meta brings her division closer to the reality laboratories of her main activity, reorganizing a reorganization of the reorganization of Zuckerberg in 2021, while simultaneously shaking his teams of Messenger, Facebook and generators.
The company merges its Facebook and Messenger teams under Facebook chief Tom Alison, while Messenger Head Loredana Crisan will move to the GENERATIF of AI, according to information.
The Meta reality laboratories division, which has lost nearly $ 60 billion since 2020, is more closely integrated into Meta’s main activities. In a internal memo Obtained by Bi, Andrew Bosworth, director of technology at Reality Labs, announced that Reality Labs “has become a positive engine for the global brand of Meta”.
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