Meta fired about 4,000 workers on Monday in performance-based job offers, but last year there were several affected staff members who claimed they received passionate feedback from their managers.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed a layoff that cut the Meta workforce by 5% in January, telling staff that they “decided to raise the bar for performance management,” taking a more “hardcore” approach. Eliminates low performance as high-tech billionaire Elon. I did the mask at his company.
Business Insider said the firing was fired as a complete whiplash, as it was rated “more than expected” during last year's annual review.
“We were told by our leadership that if this was impacted, we were already expecting it based on the conversations that our manager should have been with us one-on-one each week.” The employees who received the Talking to Business Insider.
“But I was completely blind to this,” the employee continued. “My manager said I was doing great things and didn't provide an area to work with. My manager said I was fine and not affected.”
Meta did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Multiple affected employees say they're doing high performance last year, and their ratings have been downgraded to “MOSS MOSS,” the lower tier of the system, in time for Monday's employment cuts. I was shocked by how it was.
“When I received the email, I was surprised mainly because I had a very solid performance history and there was no metric for performance issues over the past six months,” a layoff employee told BI. Ta.
According to BI, one meta staff member who said he was fired “unexpectedly” posted the document to Meta's internal forum, the workplace.
Another affected employee received a rating of “more than expected” in early 2024, but was suddenly let go on Monday shortly after returning from parental leave, according to the report.
“I'm very confused about how I was fired,” the employee wrote at work. “I think this is still an error.”
Last month, Zuckerberg highlighted his desire to act quickly to “rescend low performance.”
However, internal guidance allowed Meta managers to include employees in the top performance tier of their jobs in the employment cuts if they fail to meet their low performance reduction targets, according to BI.
Some employees shared concerns that Zuckerberg's sudden downgrade of performance as “low-performance people” and its public label could hurt their careers.
“The most difficult thing is that the meta is publicly public, so it feels like there's a scar-colored letter on its back,” the affected employee told BI. “People need to know that we're not underperforming.”
One employee realized that they had two performance ratings down from their mid-2024 reviews and had not been given feedback from their managers.
“I'm sure I'll challenge the meta story about cutting only low performance,” another layoff worker told the outlet. “I have a really difficult time trusting myself to be a low-performing person based on past feedback given to me by my manager.”
