Meta carrying out performance-based layoffs starting Monday, cutting 5% of staff

Some Laid-Off Meta Staff Cry Foul as Pushback Spotlights Meta’s Harsher Side

Meta’s just the latest big tech company to lay off staff. But it may have handled things indelicately—and staff who were let go as part of a culling of “low performers” claim they’re high achievers.

Meta begins to inform Irish staff of ‘performance-based’ job cuts

Facebook owner announced plans to trim 5% of its workforce globally last month

Irish-based Meta staff told of job cuts

Irish-based staff at Facebook parent company Meta have begun finding out if they will be impacted by job cuts announced last month.

Meta Employee Laid Off After Returning From Maternity Leave: "I Was Blindsided"

Meta has kicked off another round of job cuts, impacting around 3,600 employees across Europe, Asia, and the US. The company claims these layoffs are performance-based, targeting underperformers who didn't meet expectations. However, some former employees are disputing this, saying they had a solid track record of performance and were blindsided by the layoffs. One such employee is Elana Reman Safner, a product counsel for MetaWorks, who was lai…

'Scarlet Letter on Our Backs': Meta Says Its Job Cuts Targeted 'Low Performers,' But Some Terminated Workers Have a 'Solid' Track Record

Meta laid off 3,600 employees globally, citing low performance. Now terminated workers are pointing to track records of solid achievement and saying they aren't underperformers.

Mark Zuckerberg warned employees to prepare for an ‘intense year.’ He just laid off 3,600 workers—including some who claim they got glowing reviews

Ex-Meta employees have said they weren’t low performers, yet were laid off anyway.