Mark Zuckerberg is questioned by Meta staff at a town hall meeting.
Meta employees confronted Mark Zuckerberg at a general meeting on Friday after learning of significant layoffs at their company. The Washington Post.
As part of the company’s “Year of Efficiency,” Meta’s CEO revealed in a Facebook post on March 14 that they want to lay off another 10,000 workers and implement a new hiring freeze.
Washington Post,who obtained minutes of the March 16 meeting, said Zuckerberg responded to inquiries and sought to outline Meta’s restructuring and restructuring strategy.
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“Zuckerberg was asked how employees are expected to trust the company’s leadership after two rounds of layoffs. He said he expects to be judged on the company’s performance and the transparency of its mission, but leaders should be allowed to change their minds,” the news outlet reported.
“I would guess that the way people are going to judge whether you trust me and want to work for this company is whether we’re going to be able to make progress toward the overall goals that we’ve set,” Zuckerberg said at the town hall. “I think a lot of this is about the results we can deliver.”
Zuckerberg was also asked about the company’s remote work plans. He said it might be an “ongoing conversation” but didn’t completely rule out a return to the office.
Another employee brought up the psychological consequences of layoffs for the company’s employees. Zuckerberg acknowledged that the uncertainty of announcing layoff intentions in advance is real, but added that “it’s not like we can just stop working while we figure it out.”