Meta is cutting around 3,000 jobs, affecting about 5% of its workforce. Employees were informed through an internal memo on Friday. The leaked memo was obtained by Business Insider.
Janelle Gale, Meta’s VP of Human Resources, posted the memo on the company’s internal Workplace forum. It said employees losing their jobs would get an email on Monday morning.
The layoff process will start on Sunday at 2:30 a.m. IST for some international employees. U.S. employees will be notified at 6:30 p.m. IST on Monday. Within an hour, they will lose access to company systems. The email will also include details about severance packages.
“For teams losing a teammate or manager on Monday, I understand this might be a difficult day,” Gale wrote. She acknowledged the disruption and said offices would stay open, but employees who could work remotely were allowed to do so.
Meta follows a hybrid work model, requiring employees in the office three days a week. However, working from home on Monday will still count as in-person time.
The memo also said Meta would not publicly share who was laid off. Some of the affected roles might be refilled, but there’s no timeline yet. If a manager is let go, their team members will be assigned a new manager.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg had informed the employees about the job cuts last month. He said Meta was raising performance standards and planned to remove low performers more quickly. Usually, Meta phases out underperformers over a year, but this time, the company is making bigger cuts based on recent performance reviews.
Meta isn’t alone in making layoffs. Amazon recently let go of dozens of employees, and Salesforce cut about 1,000 jobs earlier this year.
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