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Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, announced Tuesday its intention to lay off 5% of the workforce, targeting “low-performing” employees.
“I have decided to raise the bar on performance management and fire poor performers more quickly,” said the CEO of the social platform, Mark Zuckerberg, quoted by the Bloomberg agency.
Meta annually dismisses employees who do not meet the various requirements of the platform.
“We will now make deeper reductions based on performance during this cycle,” the official said in an internal letter seen by Bloomberg.
According to the specialized agency, this decision, which will take effect at the beginning of February, will affect nearly 3,600 people out of a total of 72,000 employees by Meta. These employees will be replaced by more efficient people.
Zuckerberg declared 2023 the “year of efficiency” for the company and announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs.
The decision to terminate the contracts of “low-performing” employees comes less than a week after the Californian company announced it was ending its fact-checking programs, in order to further prioritize freedom of expression by based on “community ratings”.
“We will return to our roots and focus on reducing errors, simplifying our policies and restoring freedom of expression on our platforms,” Zuckerberg stressed in a video posted on his Facebook account.
