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Facebook parent company Meta cut nearly 4,000 employees, focusing its terminations on underperforming workers.
The cuts follow Meta’s announcement in January that it planned to slash 5% of its workforce.
Meta’s job cuts surprised some employees who said they weren’t low-performers https://t.co/vTi1PdjA88
— Business Insider (@BusinessInsider) February 11, 2025
Business Insider reports:
Business Insider spoke with eight terminated employees, who said they received “At or Above Expectations” ratings — the middle tier in Meta’s three-level midyear review system — in their 2024 assessments. These employees said they were surprised to learn their ratings had been downgraded to “Meets Most,” one of the lower tiers in Meta’s year-end performance system that refers to meeting most, but not all, expectations and made them eligible for Monday’s cuts. They asked to be anonymous because they weren’t authorized to discuss internal company matters.
The job cuts stem from Meta’s push to let go of roughly 5% of its employees, which it announced in guidance sent to managers in January. While Meta framed these cuts as targeting underperforming workers, internal guidance sent last month by Hillary Champion, Meta’s director of people experience, and viewed by BI, allowed managers to include employees from higher performance tiers if they couldn’t meet their reduction targets from lower-rated employees alone.
Meta employees on Monday will find out if they are being laid off as part of a new round of performance-based job cuts. https://t.co/ULExe3fnlw
— ABC 7 Chicago (@ABC7Chicago) February 10, 2025
Meta carrying out performance-based layoffs starting Monday, cutting 5% of staff https://t.co/1WgEctDJL3
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) February 11, 2025
Per USA TODAY:
Employees in Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands will not be included in the staffing cuts “due to local regulations,” while those in more than a dozen other countries across Europe, Asia and Africa will receive the termination notifications between Feb. 11-18, according to the memo, Reuters reported, citing an internal memo authored by Meta’s Head of People Janelle Gale.
In January, when the cuts were originally announced, Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a note posted to an internal message board, “I’ve decided to raise the bar on performance management and move out low-performers faster,” Bloomberg reported at the time, citing an internal memo sent to employees.
“We typically manage out people who aren’t meeting expectations over the course of a year,” Zuckerberg said, per the outlet. “But now we’re going to do more extensive performance-based cuts during this cycle.”
Similar to past cuts, Zuckerberg also said that the laid-off employees would receive a “generous severance,” according to Bloomberg.
The goal of the performance-based cuts is to ensure Meta has the “strongest talent” and is capable of bringing “new people in” as the company maneuvers through an “intense year” focused on artificial intelligence, smart glasses and the future of social media, Zuckerberg said in the memo.