{"id":867391,"date":"2024-10-17T18:05:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T12:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=867391"},"modified":"2024-10-18T07:07:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T01:37:08","slug":"meta-lays-off-employees-at-whatsapp-and-instagram-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/17\/meta-lays-off-employees-at-whatsapp-and-instagram-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta lays off employees at WhatsApp and Instagram: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is laying off employees across units including Instagram, WhatsApp and Reality Labs, the Verge reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>A Meta spokesperson told Reuters in a statement that a few of its teams were making changes to align with their long-term strategic goals and location strategy. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This includes moving some teams to different locations, and moving some employees to different roles. In situations like these when a role is eliminated, we work hard to find other opportunities for impacted employees,&#8221; the spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p>The Verge report did not specify the exact number of job cuts but mentioned that they were small. Meta also did not comment on the numbers.<br \/>\nSeparately, the Financial Times reported that Meta fired another two dozen staff in Los Angeles for allegedly using their daily $25 meal credits to instead buy household items including acne pads, wine glasses and laundry detergent. <\/p>\n<p>These terminations are separate from the team restructurings and took place last week, the FT report said. <\/p>\n<p>Meta declined to comment on the FT report. <\/p>\n<p>Meta has slashed around 21,000 jobs since November 2022 to keep costs low with CEO Mark Zuckerberg calling 2023 the &#8220;Year of Efficiency&#8221;.<br \/>\nMeta shares have jumped more than 60% this year. <\/p>\n<p>In its most recent second quarter results, Meta beat market expectations for revenue and issued a rosy sales forecast for the third quarter, signaling that robust digital-ad spending on its social media platforms can cover the cost of its artificial-intelligence investments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is laying off employees across units including Instagram, WhatsApp and Reality Labs, the Verge reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. A Meta spokesperson told Reuters in a statement that a few of its teams were making changes to align with their long-term strategic goals and location strategy. &#8220;This includes moving some teams to different locations, and moving some employees to different roles. In situations like these when a role is eliminated, we work hard to find other opportunities for impacted employees,&#8221; the spokesperson said. The Verge report did not specify the exact number of job cuts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}