According to a recent report, the messaging and social media company Meta platform (META, Financial) has joined other companies in giving workers pink slips as it continues to reorganize, looking forward to a period of strategy, efficiency, and skill balance. It is still unclear how many people were impacted by the changes, which include office relocations and transfers within the company.
The necessary changes can be a part of these improvements to the team organization and the chosen location strategy. ”This for instance will involve relocating some of the teams to different places and other employees to new departments,” a Meta spokesperson said, adding that the company would indeed look for new positions to place the employees who have been made redundant.
The Verge revealed the mass dismissals to the public. They affected numerous departments at Meta, specifically those involved in the company's messaging services, including WhatsApp, its social networking app, Instagram, and a VR division called Meta's Reality Labs. The dismissals show the company's continuous changes after the pandemic, as it expanded rapidly.
One of them is software engineer Jane Manchun Wong, who shared the performance and functionalities of social apps before joining Meta in 2023. Wong informed her followers about the impact of layoffs by sharing her situation on Threads, which is an expression of personal anguish.
The latest move to cut employees comes after the technology firm Meta made a series of job cuts in the previous years: a major letting go of 11,000 workers that it planned to execute in 2022 and 10,000 others it planned to let go in 2023, a vision that is in line with the firm's chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg announcing 2023 as the year of efficiency. This trend has persisted and represents a careful reinvestment by Meta as it adjusts to the fluctuating environment of the technology market.
