Meta plans to cut 5% of its lowest performers

Meta to Cut 5 Percent of Staff, Focusing on ‘Lowest Performers,’ as Zuckerberg Restructures Company
Meta has made numerous company-wide shifts in preparation for President-elect Donald Trump’s impending return to the White House next week.
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.
'Year of intensity': Meta employees react to plans to cut low performers
Mark Zuckerberg said Meta plans to make more extensive performance-based cuts." Staff have questioned how they will work in practice.
Meta cutting 5% of workforce based on performance
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is cutting the lowest-performing 5% of its workforce and plans to fill those roles later this year, the company said in a memo.
Meta to Cut 5% of Staff as Mark Zuckerberg Says He Will ‘Raise The Bar’
Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the cuts are necessary as the company builds ‘the most important technologies in the world.’
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."
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,
Meta Layoffs 2025: Mark Zuckerberg to take action against 'low performers' - THESE many jobs cut ahead
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.
Mark Zuckerberg is starting Meta's 'intense' year by laying off low-performing workers
Meta Platforms (META) is reportedly planning on cutting 5% of its workforce as the technology giant looks to continue CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s dramatic overhaul.

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