Meta To Sack Employees In Africa, Europe, Asia Starting Monday

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Thread, WhatsApp and Instagram, has announced plans to sack more employees across its operations in Africa, Europe, and Asia starting Monday (today).

This was made known in an internal memo sent to the company’s staff on Friday.

Affected employees will receive notices beginning at 5 a.m. local time on Monday in most countries, including the United States, according to one of the posts by Meta’s Head of People, Janelle Gale.

The statement revealed that Meta employees in Germany, France, Italy, and the Netherlands will be excluded from the downsising “due to local regulations,” while workers in more than a dozen other European, Asian, and African nations will receive notifications between 11 February and 18 February.

It would be recalled that Meta had stated last month that it planned to cut roughly 5% of its “lowest performers” and fill at least part of the positions.