- Mark Zuckerberg says no more large-scale cuts at Meta
- The company recently laid off 8,000 workers and reassigned 7,000 more
- Zuckerberg also pledges to improve “communication” around cuts
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said he does not expect any more large-scale layoffs at the company this year.
Speaking on the day his company laid off 8,000 people (about 10% of its workforce) and reassigned thousands of other workers to new AI-focused departments, Zuckerberg said this was the end of the cuts for now.
“I want to be clear that we do not expect any other company-wide layoffs this year,” Zuckerberg said in an internal memo (according to PakGazette). “I also want to acknowledge that we haven’t been as clear as we aspire to be in our communication, and that’s an area I want to make sure we improve on.”
As expected, the memo was not well received by some Meta employees, who PakGazette They claim that some left comments on their post, citing the words “company-wide” and “expect,” and another noted that “sometimes things go ‘unexpected’.”
News of Meta’s most recent layoffs dominated headlines around the world, largely due to the abruptness and apparent severity of the process for those involved.
He Financial times claims that Meta staff in North America were told to stay home the day the cuts were announced, and emails describing their fate were sent in the early hours of the morning.
In addition to the laid-off workers, around 7,000 Meta employees have been transferred to new AI-focused teams. Zuckerberg has apparently long been convinced that adopting AI will lead to huge leaps in productivity and efficiency, and has invested billions in implementing the technology in his company.
Among the new teams is one called ‘Applied AI’, which appears to focus on “optimizing” Meta’s AI models, and another focuses on creating agents to help staff automate workflows.
Zuckerberg’s comments could also suggest that while large-scale layoffs are not expected anytime soon, smaller-scale cuts could still occur at the team level.
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