Mark Zuckerberg announced at an internal meeting with his squad that 2025 was going to be an intense year. Just a few days later, the company announced a round of layoffs in which 5% of its global labor mass would be dispensed with that did not demonstrate a certain level of performance. This means the dismissal of about 3,600 finishing worldwide.
According to sources of Reuters. This template adjustment will be carried out with the company’s approach in improving the efficiency that Zuckerberg champied in 2023 with its “Year of efficiency“The main novelty is that, according to the news agency, the best performance roles cut It will be compensated with the hiring of strategic profiles related to artificial intelligence and automatic learning.
Departure gun to layoffs. As published by Reuters, dismissal notices have already begun to be sent by email to the target employees of the world, mainly from the US and the United Kingdom. Between February 11 and 18, Asia and Africa employees will also begin to receive their dismissal notifications and contain details about their compensation. An hour after receiving email, affected employees will be expelled from the company’s systems.
“For teams that have a partner or manager who leaves Monday, I understand that this can be a difficult day and that there could be some short -term interruptions and impacts in their daily work,” wrote Janelle Gale, Vice President of Meta In a memorandum sent to employees on Friday, of which It echoes Business Insider.
Round trip program. On the other hand, according to The published in Business Insiderdays before the announcement of the company’s intention to reduce its template by 5%, Mark Zuckerberg I give green light to the definitive closure of its program diversity, equality, equity in hiring. So the new hiring that may occur from this moment will not be accepted to these programs.
The memorandum sent by the RRHH head of Meta on Friday, it is noted that the employees dismissed in this round can re -request a finish line, once the deadlines of inactivity have been completed, although this time the parameters will not be taken into account of diversity, but “the previous performance will be taken into account when making a hiring decision.”
EUROPA BLINDA EMPLOYMENT. According to the reuters sources, finishing employees in Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands will be exempt from these layoffs due to Local labor regulations.
In these cases, the respective goal branches in those countries will follow “local performance management processes,” said Meta’s HR memorandum. Spain does not enter the countries with “exceptions”, although if the Meta branch in Spain reaches a high number of dismissal should be notified as ERE. However, goal has not yet facilitated concrete figures of the number of layoffs in the respective countries.
Unlike the US, in Europe, if a company with more than 300 employees plans to fire at least 30 workers within 30 days, you must follow Consultation and notification procedures for being considered collective dismissal. In countries like Germany, the requirements for dismissal are even stricter.
Focus on efficiency and AI. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO, justified his latest meetings with the finish line That leaked that this restructuring was part of an effort to raise performance standards within the company and that AI would be in the center of everything that tarked in 2025.
“This is a marathon, not a speed race. But, honestly, this year for me it looks a little more at a speed race,” said Zuckerberg in his speech, As published Business Insider.
According to Reuters, in an internal statement by Peng Fan, vice president of engineering for monetization, the recruitment process will take place between February 11 and March 13.
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