{"id":1553447,"date":"2022-07-14T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T10:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1553447"},"modified":"2022-07-14T07:04:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T11:04:30","slug":"facebook-prepares-for-layoffs-as-company-faces-one-of-its-worst-downturns-in-recent-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-prepares-for-layoffs-as-company-faces-one-of-its-worst-downturns-in-recent-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Prepares for Layoffs as Company Faces One of Its Worst Downturns in Recent History"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffacebook-prepares-for-layoffs-as-company-faces-one-of-its-worst-downturns-in-recent-history%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1553447&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Facebook (now known as Meta) has reportedly told managers to identify employees for layoffs, with CEO Mark\u00a0Zuckerberg recently saying the company is experiencing \u201cone of the worst downturns\u201d in recent history.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook employees are facing layoffs, as Vice President for\u00a0Remote Presence Maher Saba recently told managers to identify people on their team who \u201cneed support,\u201d as well as\u00a0\u201cmove to exit\u201d poor performers \u201cwho are unable to get on track,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/briefings\/meta-exec-to-managers-exit-people-who-cant-get-on-track\">report<\/a> by the Information.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_16741706\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/06\/Mark-Zuckerberg-throwing-spears.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Zuckerberg throwing spears (Mark Zuckerberg\/Facebook)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18067466\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Mark-Zuckerberg-surrounded-by-guards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18067466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Mark-Zuckerberg-surrounded-by-guards.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Zuckerberg surrounded by guards\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Zuckerberg surrounded by guards ( Chip Somodevilla \/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The verbiage suggests that employees who get singled out for needing support will have a chance to redeem themselves, but that staffers who don\u2019t make progress will ultimately get canned.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe reaction from folks that have seen this [memo] is that this will be used to create a bunch [of] \u2018performance improvement plans\u2019 that will result in mass layoffs,\u201d a person familiar with the matter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/07\/11\/facebook-tells-low-performers-to-go\/\">told<\/a>\u00a0the <em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Saba also reportedly wrote in the memo that \u201cif a\u00a0direct report is coasting or is a low performer, they are not who we need; they are failing this company,\u201d adding, \u201cas a manager, you cannot allow someone to be net neutral or negative for Meta.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Zuckerberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/07\/01\/gloomy-zuck-facebook-turning-up-the-heat-to-get-rid-of-employees-who-shouldnt-be-here\/\">warned<\/a> employees during a\u00a0companywide call that not everyone was meeting the company\u2019s standards, and that Facebook had cut plans to hire\u00a0engineers by at least 30 percent this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I had to bet, I\u2019d say that this might be one of the worst downturns that we\u2019ve seen in recent history,\u201d Zuckerberg told them. \u201cRealistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn\u2019t be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the last quarter of 2021, Facebook lost daily active users for the first time\u00a0in the company\u2019s history, with Zuckerberg\u00a0attributing the decline to competition from the Chinese-owned app, TikTok, where many young users are flocking to today.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana\u00a0Mastrangelo on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and Twitter at\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook (now known as Meta) has reportedly told managers to identify employees for layoffs, with CEO Mark\u00a0Zuckerberg recently saying the company is experiencing \u201cone of the worst downturns\u201d in recent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1553646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1553646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}