Meta plans to begin slashing 5% of low-performers on Monday: report
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg will reportedly begin slashing staff on Monday — and the company posted an internal memo telling workers what to expect ahead of the performance-based job cuts.
The Facebook parent — which plans to chop 5% of its workforce — will notify Impacted employees via their work and personal emails, according to a post on Meta’s internal Workplace forum obtained by Business Insider.
The emails will contain information about their severance packages before will lose access to company systems within an hour of being notified, Janelle Gale, the company’s vice president of human resources, said in the memo.
While Meta’s offices will be open, all staffers with remote options can work from home on Monday, according to the note.
“For teams that have a teammate or manager exit on Monday, I understand this might be a difficult day, and there could be some disruption and short-term impacts on your day to day work,” Gale said.
“Managers might not yet have all the answers to your questions, but will be partnering with their leaders and working through these changes with you to provide additional clarity,” she added.
The memo said workers in Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands are exempt from the job cuts due to “local regulations” and will instead “follow local performance management processes.”
Gale’s memo included the time at which staffers in each country will receive the emails. US workers, for example, are set to receive termination notices at 5 a.m. PT on Monday, the note said.
The notifications will be delayed for some impacted employees, like those on a protected leave, Gale said.
All affected staffers will receive their vesting stock that is due Feb. 15, along with a bonus if they’re eligible, the memo said.
The job cuts were first revealed earlier this month in an internal memo from Zuckerberg, who told employees he “decided to raise the bar on performance management.”
In the memo, Zuckerberg said he would be acting quickly to “move out low-performers.”
The tech company has also been trying to clamp down on leaks, threatening to fire staffers for spilling details of an internal meeting to the media – in a memo that then also got leaked.
