Many years ago, as a new college graduate, I started out in what turned out to be a temporary career in retail management.
There was an insight I took away from a kindly but experienced superior. He was the first one to explain to me that a job description was in part a tool used to track and document justifiable reasons for terminating low-performing employees.
It sounds like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg knows that same business practice. In response to looming financial downturns, Zuckerberg is laying the groundwork for mass layoffs at Meta. Zuckerberg put managers on notice to start identifying those “who are unable to get on track” for future cuts.
As reported by Reuters on July 1, during a weekly employee question-and-answer session, Zuckerberg also delivered a message to Meta workers: It seems going woke does lead to going broke.
Discussing the situation at Meta, Zuckerberg said,” If I had to bet, I’d say that this might be one of the worst downturns that we’ve seen in recent history.”
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Zuckerberg put responsibility for layoffs squarely on employee performance. “Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn’t be here,” Zuckerberg stated.
Zuckerberg continued, “Part of my hope by raising expectations and having more aggressive goals, and just kind of turning up the heat a little bit, is that I think some of you might decide that this place isn’t for you, and that self-selection is OK with me.”
In addition to potential future cuts of the existing workforce, Meta scaled back the hiring of new engineers in 2022 from 10,000 to between 6,000 and 7,000. Other positions are also to be left vacant.
The Meta rebrand was supposed to be a glorious expansion of Facebook, taking it beyond being just a social media platform.
“We are at the beginning of the next chapter for the internet, and it’s the next chapter for our company too,” Zuckerberg boasted in October of 2021.
Zuckerkerberg claimed, “The next platform will be even more immersive…
