Workers at Meta are facing a morale crisis after the company said last month it would layoff people and cut open roles.
That was on top of a November chop that eliminated more than 11,000 people, or 13% of staff.Zuckerberg went all-in on remote work at the outset of the pandemic, and a lot of employees did, too.
The New York Times points out that some of the company's top executives are now remote; even as Zuckerberg — once a work-from-home booster — has beenThis is all a pretty big bummer for the remaining folks at Meta who worry they're next to go — and who don't have the top brass around to help set a new tone.
“So many of the employees feel like they’re in limbo right now,” Erin Sumner, who was laid off from Facebook in November, told the NYT. “They’re saying it’s ‘Hunger Games’ meets ‘Lord of the Flies,’ where everyone is trying to prove their worth to management.”Facebook isn't really unusual; of course, layoffs are bad for morale. They're possibly bad for other reasons, too — like productivity.
And studies show that over the long term, job cuts might also impact the financial performance of a company, as Kevin Delaney explains in a recent column for
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