Meta to layoff another 10,000 employees after laying off 11,000 in November.
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I'm still trying to figure out how a website requires 10,000 employees to begin with. If it were a site where people went to purchase material goods, yeah, I could see having a bunch of employees, with the bulk of them being warehousing/logistics/order fulfillment/call center/etc.
I know I'm just being ignorant, but it seems like that's just too much bloat for that kind of company, and these layoffs are way overdue.
They need 10,000 people to meet the diversity quota and balance out the 100 straight white male coders.
I agree, my understanding is that most of the fact -checking was done by contractors so exactly what is there for employees to do?
This round of layoffs drops the total of Meta employees to 66,000. Last year Meta had 87,000 employees, most of whom were/are probably there to silence opposing viewpoints.
Either way you slice it, 87,000 people to run anything is still a massive amount of people. Elon proved you could eliminate a bunch of unnecessary, redundant employees and still perform the tasks to run Twitter on a day to day basis.