Beginning Monday, Meta Platforms, the company that owns Facebook, plans to conduct another round of layoffs throughout its operations in Africa, Europe, and Asia.
In an internal document seen by Reuters on Friday, the company told its employees about the plans. One of the blogs, written by Janelle Gale, Head of People at Meta, states that notices will be sent to workers who lose their jobs beginning at 5 a.m. local time on Monday in the majority of countries, including the United States.
Employees in more than a dozen other European, Asian, and African nations will be notified between February 11 and February 18, according to the statement available to BrandSpur digital news platform, while workers in Germany, France, Italy, and the Netherlands would not be affected by the reduction “due to local regulations.” The lowest performance will be impacted.
Last month, Meta announced that it intended to backfill at least some of the roles and cut roughly 5% of its “lowest performers.” The Information was the first to report on the Friday message, in which Gale described the cutbacks as “performance terminations.”
Gale penned in her statement that, in contrast to past company-wide layoffs, Meta intended to keep its offices open on Monday and would not provide any updates with more information on the decisions.
Peng Fan, VP of Engineering for Monetization, posted a separate memo on Friday asking staffers to help with an expedited hiring process for machine learning engineers and other “business critical” engineering roles. The process is scheduled to take place between February 11 and March 13, according to Fan.
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Continuing, he had this to say: “Thank you for your continued support in helping us achieve our accelerated hiring goals, and better align with our company’s priorities for 2025.”
Following the mid-2023 employment reductions that affected at least 35 Nigerian employees, including the entire engineering team, Meta began reducing its office space in Lagos in June of last year. At the time, though, the social media behemoth said that the action was part of a routine review procedure to maximize its real estate footprint.
According to the company, it intends to switch to a desk-sharing arrangement for workers who do most of their work from home. Meta acknowledged that it was no longer using engineers in Nigeria for its operations, but it played down the loss in office space.
Given that it is also targeting its businesses in Africa, it is currently unknown how many Nigerians would be affected by the most recent wave of layoffs.
