- Tech workers at Meta have started to find out if they're affected by the latest round of layoffs.
- Social media posts appear to show that staff members have been receiving news of job cuts Wednesday.
Tech workers at Meta started to find out on Wednesday if they were affected by the company's latest round of layoffs, social media posts appeared to show.
Insider viewed more than a dozen LinkedIn posts by Meta workers saying they'd been hit by the cuts as part of Meta's so-called "Year of Efficiency." These included technical program managers, machine learning engineers, and UX researchers.
When asked for further information by Insider, Meta – the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus – referred to CEO Mark Zuckerberg's letter to staff from March, in which the company said it would be laying off 10,000 workers over the coming months. In the letter, Zuckerberg said staff would start to be informed in "late April."
CNBC reported earlier Wednesday that the layoffs had begun, saying that Meta had confirmed the news.
The Washington Post reported that an internal analysis suggested that Wednesday's layoffs could affect 4,000 workers, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Bloomberg reported that Meta told staff work from home on Wednesday so that they could process the news.
Zuckerberg had told staff in March that the company would be restructured, with a focus on "flattening our orgs, canceling lower priority projects, and reducing our hiring rates."
He said that workers in tech roles wouldn't find out until late April whether their jobs were included among the layoffs, and members of its business groups would have to wait until late May. In some cases, it may take until the end of 2023 for the changes to be completed and non-US teams might find out about their layoffs at different time points, he added.
"This will be tough and there's no way around that," Zuckerberg told staff in March's email. "It will mean saying goodbye to talented and passionate colleagues who have been part of our success."
Meta had already announced it was laying off more than 11,000 staffers in November. Since then, "many things have gone faster," Zuckerberg said.
Employees' reactions to the November cuts — when staff members found out they'd lost their jobs via email — prompted Meta to give workers more notice this time, Zuckerberg said.
"I recognize that sharing plans for restructuring and layoffs months in advance creates a challenging period," Zuckerberg wrote in March's email.
"But last fall, we heard feedback that you wanted more transparency sooner into any restructuring plans, so that's what I'm trying to provide here."