Mark Zuckerberg announced at the beginning of the year that he wanted to relieve Meta employees. He mentions the reason that these employees do not provide the performance that was expected. However, former employees also spoke up and say: the layoffs have another reason.
How many employees wants to release Mark Zuckerberg? In January, Mark Zuckerberg announced to the employees in a memo (via Bloomberg) that he wanted to dismiss almost 5 % of the Meta workforce. That would be almost 3,600 employees.
According to Bloomberg, Zuckerberg wants to tackle employees who do not meet the labor -technical expectations of META and perform poorly than is desired. In the meantime, however, former employees have also said and they say: It is not due to the lack of performance.
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People need to know that we are not underperformers
What do the employees say about the layoffs? The business insider spoke to several employees about the memo and the planned layoffs. The sources wanted to remain anonymous, which is why the statements cannot be confirmed. The employees surveyed draw a different picture of the situation.
One of the respondents is said to have been shocked. According to the Business Insider, he even showed documents that showed that he had fulfilled or even surpassed the expectations of recent years. Another employee was gone due to parenting and was probably canceled, although he was also praised for his previous performance.
An employee said, according to the Business Insider, the most difficult thing is that Meta is publicly explaining that she releases low -performance employees so that it feels like we have the scarlet letters in the neck […] People need to know that we are not underperformers.
In general, you can see in the descriptions that the anonymous employees have always received positive feedback before they were suddenly terminated.
An alleged employee of Meta spoke on Teamblind.com, a page where you can evaluate your employer. He said that there were supposedly countless employees who were gone due to parental leave or took sick leave, even though they had good performance: apparently more money was about money. Be careful when you join this company.
All the reports of the employees are anonymous, which is why the allegations cannot be proven. Nevertheless, there are a large number of employees who express such allegations. Tech billionaires are permanently criticized, also because of the behavior towards employees and the spreading of false information. The latter also criticized a Nobel laureate: Nobel laureate warns of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg: “They lack moral values”