Mark Zuckerberg told staff Tuesday that Meta will make “more extensive performance-based cuts.”
Meta plans to cut 5% of its lowest performers, according to a separate memo sent to managers.
Last week, Meta said it would roll back DEI initiatives and get rid of third-party fact-checkers.
Meta is planning to cut 5% of its lowest performers, Business Insider has learned.
Mark Zuckerberg has told employees he “decided to raise the bar on performance management” and act quickly to “move out low-performers,” according to an internal memo seen by BI.
The Meta chief wrote in a post on Workplace, the company’s internal forum, that the company will make “more extensive performance-based cuts” during this year’s performance review cycle.
Two Meta employees told BI that the company kickstarted its annual performance review process last week by having employees submit their self-reviews, peer reviews, and manager reviews.
Zuckerberg said that impacted employees in the US would be notified on February 10.
In a separate memo seen by BI, Meta’s director of people development growth programs, Hillary Champion, told managers that the changes would mean “exiting approximately 5% of our lowest performers.”
Champion added that employees terminated for performance will ‘”receive generous severance packages, in line with previous cuts
Meta last week said it would dismantle its DEI-focused team and scrap diversity programs in its hiring process. The company’s vice president of human resources, Janelle Gale, said in the memo announcing the changes that the term DEI has “become charged” partly because it is “understood by some as a practice that suggests preferential treatment of some groups over others.”
It also made changes to its content moderation policies earlier that week, including getting rid of third-party fact-checkers in favor of a community notes model similar to X.
Meta didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
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Meta is working on building some of the most important technologies in the world – – AI, glasses as the next computing platform, and the future of social media. This is going to be an intense year, and I want to make sure we have the best people on our teams.
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