Meta plans to lay off employees this week,
three people with knowledge of the situation said, adding that the job cuts
were set to be the most significant at the company since it was founded in
2004.
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It was unclear how
many people would be cut and in which departments, said the people, who
declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The layoffs were expected by the end of the week. Meta had 87,314 employees at
the end of September, up 28 percent from a year ago.
Meta has been struggling financially for months and
has been increasingly clamping down on costs. The
Silicon Valley company, which
owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, has spent billions of
dollars on the emerging technology of the metaverse, an immersive online world,
just as the global economy has slowed and inflation has soared.
At the same time, digital advertising — which forms
the bulk of Meta’s revenue — has weakened as advertisers have pulled back,
affecting many social media companies. Meta’s business has also been hurt by
privacy changes that Apple enacted, which have hampered the ability of many
apps to target mobile ads to users.
Last month, Meta posted a 50 percent slide in
quarterly profits and its second-straight sales decline. The company said at
the time that it would be “making significant changes across the board to
operate more efficiently”, including by shrinking some teams and by hiring only
in its areas of highest priority.
Meta CEO
Mark Zuckerberg had added that most “teams
will stay flat or shrink over the next year”. He said the company would “end
2023 as either roughly the same size, or even a slightly smaller organization
than we are today”.
The Wall Street Journal earlier reported Meta’s
plans for layoffs this week.
Zuckerberg has
been signaling tougher times ahead for months. In July, he told employees that
the company was facing one of the “worst downturns that we’ve seen in recent
history” and that workers should prepare to do more work with fewer resources.
Their performances would also be graded more intensely than previously, he
said.
Meta joins other tech companies that have been
laying off employees as economic conditions have grown more challenging. Tech
companies boomed during the coronavirus pandemic, but many of the largest firms
reported financial results in recent weeks that showed they were feeling the
impact of global economic jitters.
On Friday, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and
the new owner of Twitter, laid off half of the company’s staff. On Thursday,
Lyft said it would cut 13 percent of its employees, or about 650 of its 5,000
workers. Stripe, a payment processing platform, said it would cut 14 percent of
its employees, roughly 1,100 jobs. Snap, Robinhood, and Coinbase are among
other companies that have announced job cuts this year.
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