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Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will reportedly start terminating employees affected by performance-based layoffs as early as Monday, February 10. The job cuts is likely to affect over 3,600 employees across more than a dozen countries, as per reports.
Impacted workers will receive notification via their work and personal email addresses and lose access to company systems within an hour, reported Business Insider quoting an internal note by Janelle Gale, Meta’s vice president of human resources.
“For teams that have a teammate or manager exit on Monday, I understand this might be a difficult day, and there could be some disruption and short-term impacts on your day to day work,” Gale wrote in the company’s internal Workplace forum.
The development comes a month after CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s January announcement to “raise the bar on performance management” and quickly “move out low-performers”.
The Monday terminations are liklely to hit employees in European countries like France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. The mails will be sent as per time zones, beginning with Asia-Pacific regions, followed by Europe, Middle East, and Africa, and concluding with North and Latin America. Some international employees will receive notifications between February 11-18, Business Insider reported.
Impacted employees will receive severance package information in their notification emails. They will retain their February 15 stock vesting and bonus eligibility if applicable, Gale’s memo stated.
Affected employees will not be entitled for internal positions during their non-working period, but can reapply to Meta after their final employment date. “Past performance will be considered while making a hiring decision,” Gale noted.
The company does not plan to issue company-wide communications when notifications are complete. Managers will work with their leaders to provide clarity about organizational changes, though Gale acknowledged they “might not yet have all the answers to your questions.