Meta Cutting Another 10,000 Jobs And Instituting Hiring Freeze
deadline.comMeta – the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp – will cut another 10,000 jobs and undergo a hiring freeze in what CEO Mark Zuckerberg is calling the ‘Year of Efficiency’ for the tech giant.
In a further cost-saving measure, Meta will also close 5,000 open roles. Zuckerberg said the measures are being taken to “improve organizational efficiency, dramatically increase developer productivity and tooling, optimize distributed work, garbage collect unnecessary processes, and more.” Late last year, Meta announced it was axing 11,000 staff – about 13% of the entire workforce at that point – and the new round of cuts take that to 21,000, or 26,000 if the hiring freeze is counted.
Facebook had at one point employed 87,000 staff. The first round of cuts represented the first major in Meta’s history and came after Zuckerberg – and many other tech CEOs – had incorrectly betted on the e-commerce boom at the height of the coronavirus pandemic continuing post-pandemic.
Today, in a blog post, Zuckerberg addressed his ‘Year of Efficiency’ strategy. “As I’ve talked about efficiency this year, I’ve said that part of our work will involve removing jobs — and that will be in service of both building a leaner, more technical company and improving our business performance to enable our long term vision,” he said.
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