Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

Re:Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year' by mywittyname on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @01:04PM (#42701180)

I'm not trying to apologize for Meta here, but sometimes companies make bad hiring decisions, or good workers get lazy/apathetic.

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Re:Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year' by sixothree on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @01:21PM (#42701480)

Or have children causing distractions, or get injured etc.

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Re:Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year' by yard2010 on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @02:12PM (#42702237)

Or having their house burned down with not enough PTO remaining..

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Re:Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year' by allenu on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @05:17PM (#42704705)

I can imagine also that in some situations where there's a large volume of work to be done and you don't need a high performer to get some of it done, you'd rather have the low performer than nobody in that position so you can make progress.

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