“Overall, we expect to reduce our team size by around 10,000 people and to close around 5,000 additional open roles that we haven’t yet hired.”
Meta cuts 10,000 more jobs and kills 5,000 open roles. Recruiters go first, tech groups in late April, business groups in late May. Zuckerberg also cites “early analysis” that remote hires perform worse, a convenient finding to drop in a layoff memo. The man who renamed the company for the metaverse calls cutting the people who built it efficiency.