Meta’s ‘efficiency’ layoffs take a toll on employees’ productivity

The company, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said the layoffs were necessary to improve efficiency, after over-hiring during the pandemic. — AP

Meta Platforms Inc employees received news on May 24 of the final round of previously announced job cuts, which affected thousands of workers in the company’s business departments. Now, remaining staff are hoping an uncomfortable limbo at the company can end.

The layoffs complete the bulk of the restructuring chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg announced in March to eliminate 10,000 positions. Initial reductions affected the company’s recruiting and human resources departments, and in late April jobs in Meta’s tech groups were slashed. Zuckerberg has said further cuts will come in only a “small number of cases” for the rest of the year, giving those people left a cold sense of relief.