The former employee said that Meta’s “handling of the situation has been appalling”. (Representative)
Facebook’s parent company Meta is now laying off 10,000 more employees after laying off 11,000 employees last year. Hit by the tech giant’s new round of massive layoffs, a Meta employee has shared that she was fired while on maternity leave. The worker questioned the company’s leadership and asked whether its chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg, had taken a pay cut.
In a LinkedIn post, Andy Allen, who works at Meta as a Senior Technical Recruiter, wrote, “I was part of today’s Meta layoffs while on maternity leave”.
Stating that she understands the change in market trends, Ms. Allen said, “I don’t understand how Meta’s leadership miscalculated so badly that they had to lay off thousands of employees, and yet this want to claim they care about the people who work for them”.
Ms. Allen then asked, “Has Mark Zuckerberg taken a pay cut?” She said that her recruiting team was “top notch”, while Meta’s “handling of the situation has been appalling”.
In addition to layoffs, Meta Platforms Inc. is also planning close to 5,000 openings, Cancel low-priority projects, and flatten the layers of middle management. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company would ask managers to become individual contributors and give them fewer than 10 direct reports to “flatten” the organization. “We don’t expect the workforce to grow so quickly, it makes more sense to fully utilize the capacity of each manager and as many defragment layers as possible,” he added.
According to Mark Zuckerberg, 2023 is Meta’s “year of efficiency”, which the company has been telling its employees during performance reviews.
A few days ago, another former Meta employee named Sutha Sahgar shared in a lengthy LinkedIn post how she was ordeal after being fired. Ms. Sahgar worked as a talent acquisition employee and said she didn’t realize that “the timeline would be so short, Asking for help to find another job, she said that “times are tough and I know the road ahead is going to be tough”.