Meta to Fire 3600 Employees Mark Zuckerberg Says will hire new people

Parent company of platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp is going to be trimmed once again. This will be the second trimming of the company on a large scale in which about 4 thousand employees will be affected. Meta is going to trim the employees who are not performing very well according to the company. By trimming such employees, the company is planning to recruit new employees in their place.

META has announced the employees to sleep in the beginning of 2025 by announcing a big layoff. Mark Zuckerberg’s company is going to reduce 3600 employees out of its workforce. 5% of employees will be excluded from the company through this trimming. Report According to, the company has given this information on Tuesday. 72,400 employees were working in the company till September. Regarding the performance -based trim, Mark Zuckerberg said that the company wants to ensure that the strongest talent is present inside the meta.

Meta is not the first company that is going to take performance based sorting. Such trimming is often seen in big companies in America. Microsoft also has similar umbrellas in last week in which the company reduced less than 1 percent of the workforce.

Talking about other reports related to the retrenchment, Google has also announced a big sorting recently. Officers of big posts will be involved in this retrenchment. These will include roles like managerial and directors. Sorting will also include posts like Vice President. Overall, the company is preparing to remove 10% of the employees from the company.

In Google, this trimmed is being done in view of the increasing competition in the field of AI. Also, the company aims to double the efficiency. Some of the 10 percent of the posts have been transferred to individual contributor rolls. While some roles have been abolished by the company. According to the report, CEO Sundar Pichai indicated in an unanimous meeting that the roles of manager, director and vice-president would be cut.