Another 10,000 employees have been laid off by Metaconfirmed Mark Zuckerberg through his profile on Facebook. In this way, the Menlo Park firm carries out its second massive personnel cut in four months, after the one carried out in November 2022 and which affected 11,000 workers.
“This will be difficult and there is no way around it. It will mean saying goodbye to talented and passionate colleagues who have been a part of our success. They have dedicated themselves to our mission and I am personally grateful for all their efforts. We will support people in the same way that we have done before and we will treat everyone with the gratitude they deserve, “said the CEO of the company.
The new staff cut announced by Mark Zuckerberg is part of the recently announced strategy, with which Meta aims to make 2023 “the year of effectiveness”. For this reason, the measure not only contemplates dispensing again with thousands of workers. The top executive of the Californian company indicated that around 5,000 jobs for which there were open contracts will also be eliminatedalthough none had yet been finalized.
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