Meta plans to cut 5% of its lowest performers

Zuckerberg plans Meta layoffs as company culls ‘low performers’ faster
Layoffs could affect 5 percent of the workforce as its CEO seeks to “raise the bar on performance management,” according to a memo viewed by The Post.
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Meta plans to cut 5% of its workforce, focusing on the lowest performers. Read the memo Mark Zuckerberg sent to staff.
The Meta chief wrote in a post on Workplace, the company's internal forum, that the company would be doing "more extensive performance-based cuts."
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Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the cuts are necessary as the company builds ‘the most important technologies in the world.’
Zuckerberg says Meta will lay off more ‘low-performers’
Meta will soon lay off more “low-performers” across the company, according to an internal memo from CEO Mark Zuckerberg that was shared by a source at the company. “I’ve decided to raise the bar on performance management and move out low-performers faster,
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Mark Zuckerberg said Meta plans to make more extensive performance-based cuts." Staff have questioned how they will work in practice.
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Meta employed around 72,000 people, meaning the 5% reduction could impact roughly 3,600 jobs. Zuckerberg emphasized the need to "raise the bar on performance management and move out low-performers faster.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company will be cutting low-performers 'faster' as a way to 'raise the bar'
The Meta chief wrote in a post on Workplace, the company's internal forum, that the company will be doing "more extensive performance-based cuts."
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