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Meta或计划进行新一轮裁员:如今的局面仍然很混乱

Meta或计划进行新一轮裁员:如今的局面仍然很混乱

STEVE MOLLMAN 2023-02-15
马克·扎克伯格宣布2023年将是Meta的“效率年”。

马克·扎克伯格(Mark Zuckerberg)警告称,Meta将进行新一轮裁员。图片来源:DAVID PAUL MORRIS—BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES

去年11月,脸书(Facebook)母公司Meta进行了有史以来最大规模的裁员,裁掉了约1.1万名员工。但是,Meta将进行新一轮裁员。

首席执行官马克·扎克伯格2月1日在脸书(Facebook)帖子中指出:“去年我们经历了困难时期,进行了裁员和团队重组。当我们这样做时,我明确表示,这是我们关注效率的开始,而不是终结。”在同一天的收益电话会议上,他宣布2023年将是Meta的“效率年”。

据英国《金融时报》报道,当Meta的员工在想谁会被认为效率低下时,该公司却推迟敲定多个团队的预算。一位不具名员工向《金融时报》透露,该公司士气低落,一些团队几乎没有完成什么工作,因为他们在等待难产的预算决定。

当《财富》杂志联系Meta时,该公司拒绝置评。

一名员工向英国《金融时报》表示:“说实话,如今的局面仍然很混乱。效率年以一群人拿钱不做事而拉开序幕。”

其他员工告诉该报,预计下一次裁员将在下个月进行。

中层管理人员有理由感到紧张。

“更主动地削减项目”

扎克伯格在他的脸书帖子中写道:“我们正努力使我们的组织结构更加扁平化,解雇一些中层管理人员,以便更快地做出决策,同时应用人工智能工具,助力工程师提高生产力。作为这一计划的一部分,我们将更主动地削减那些业绩不突出或可能不再那么至关重要的项目,但重中之重在于提高执行重要任务的效率。”

其中一个优先事项是元宇宙,这是一个在很大程度上尚未实现的虚拟世界,该虚拟世界让用户感觉索然无味。如果元宇宙项目真的能实现盈利,可能也需要数年时间。该公司的元宇宙部门Reality Labs在2022年亏损137亿美元,高于2021年的102亿美元。

投资者试图向扎克伯格施压,要求他缩减对元宇宙的投资,但无济于事。

12月,虚拟现实先驱、Meta高级顾问约翰·卡马克(John Carmack)离任,他在Meta从事元宇宙研究工作。他在离任时发推文表示:“我一直对脸书/Meta的工作方式感到非常沮丧。该公司具备大获成功的一切要素,却没有将这些要素有效地结合在一起。”

然而,元宇宙发展缓慢,连续三个季度的营收同比下降,但这并没有阻止Meta的股票回购。Meta在最新的财报中表示,公司将股票回购授权增加了400亿美元,并指出去年该公司的回购额约为280亿美元。

新冠肺炎疫情期间,由于服务需求激增,许多科技公司过度招聘,近几个月来进行了大规模裁员。最新的美国就业报告显示,失业率降至50年来的最低水平,这与新闻头条相冲突。(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-王芳

去年11月,脸书(Facebook)母公司Meta进行了有史以来最大规模的裁员,裁掉了约1.1万名员工。但是,Meta将进行新一轮裁员。

首席执行官马克·扎克伯格2月1日在脸书(Facebook)帖子中指出:“去年我们经历了困难时期,进行了裁员和团队重组。当我们这样做时,我明确表示,这是我们关注效率的开始,而不是终结。”在同一天的收益电话会议上,他宣布2023年将是Meta的“效率年”。

据英国《金融时报》报道,当Meta的员工在想谁会被认为效率低下时,该公司却推迟敲定多个团队的预算。一位不具名员工向《金融时报》透露,该公司士气低落,一些团队几乎没有完成什么工作,因为他们在等待难产的预算决定。

当《财富》杂志联系Meta时,该公司拒绝置评。

一名员工向英国《金融时报》表示:“说实话,如今的局面仍然很混乱。效率年以一群人拿钱不做事而拉开序幕。”

其他员工告诉该报,预计下一次裁员将在下个月进行。

中层管理人员有理由感到紧张。

“更主动地削减项目”

扎克伯格在他的脸书帖子中写道:“我们正努力使我们的组织结构更加扁平化,解雇一些中层管理人员,以便更快地做出决策,同时应用人工智能工具,助力工程师提高生产力。作为这一计划的一部分,我们将更主动地削减那些业绩不突出或可能不再那么至关重要的项目,但重中之重在于提高执行重要任务的效率。”

其中一个优先事项是元宇宙,这是一个在很大程度上尚未实现的虚拟世界,该虚拟世界让用户感觉索然无味。如果元宇宙项目真的能实现盈利,可能也需要数年时间。该公司的元宇宙部门Reality Labs在2022年亏损137亿美元,高于2021年的102亿美元。

投资者试图向扎克伯格施压,要求他缩减对元宇宙的投资,但无济于事。

12月,虚拟现实先驱、Meta高级顾问约翰·卡马克(John Carmack)离任,他在Meta从事元宇宙研究工作。他在离任时发推文表示:“我一直对脸书/Meta的工作方式感到非常沮丧。该公司具备大获成功的一切要素,却没有将这些要素有效地结合在一起。”

然而,元宇宙发展缓慢,连续三个季度的营收同比下降,但这并没有阻止Meta的股票回购。Meta在最新的财报中表示,公司将股票回购授权增加了400亿美元,并指出去年该公司的回购额约为280亿美元。

新冠肺炎疫情期间,由于服务需求激增,许多科技公司过度招聘,近几个月来进行了大规模裁员。最新的美国就业报告显示,失业率降至50年来的最低水平,这与新闻头条相冲突。(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-王芳

Facebook parent Meta conducted its biggest-ever layoffs last November, shedding about 11,000 workers. But more jobs, it appears, are about to be axed.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted in a Facebook post on Feb. 1, “We closed last year with some difficult layoffs and restructuring some teams. When we did this, I said clearly that this was the beginning of our focus on efficiency and not the end.” During an earnings call that same day, he announced 2023 will be Meta’s “year of efficiency.”

While Meta workers wonder who will be deemed inefficient, the company has delayed finalizing multiple teams’ budgets, according to the Financial Times. Employees who spoke to the British paper on condition of anonymity said morale at the company was low and little work was getting done on some teams as they await abnormally slow budget decisions.

Meta declined to comment when contacted by Fortune.

“Honestly, it’s still a mess,” one employee told the FT. “The year of efficiency is kicking off with a bunch of people getting paid to do nothing.”

Other workers told the paper the next job cuts are expected next month.

Middle managers have reason to be nervous.

‘More proactive about cutting projects’

Zuckerberg wrote in his Facebook post, “We’re working on flattening our org structure and removing some layers of middle management to make decisions faster, as well as deploying AI tools to help our engineers be more productive. As part of this, we’re going to be more proactive about cutting projects that aren’t performing or may no longer be as crucial, but my main focus is on increasing the efficiency of how we execute our top priorities.”

One of those priorities is the metaverse, a largely unrealized virtual world that has underwhelmed users and could take years to become profitable, if it ever does. The company’s metaverse division, Reality Labs, notched a loss of $13.7 billion for 2022, up from a $10.2 billion loss in 2021.

Investors have tried pressuring Zuckerberg to scale back the metaverse investments, to no avail.

In December, John Carmack, a virtual reality pioneer, left his high-level consulting role at Meta, where he worked on the metaverse. He tweeted on the way out, “I have always been pretty frustrated with how things get done at FB/Meta. Everything necessary for spectacular success is right there, but it doesn’t get put together effectively.”

Slow going with the metaverse and three consecutive quarters of year-over-year revenue declines, however, are not stopping stock buybacks at Meta. In its latest earnings statement, Meta said it had increased its share repurchase authorization by $40 billion, noting that last year it bought back about $28 billion.

Many tech companies that over-hired during the pandemic, as demand surged for the services, have conducted large layoffs in recent months, leading to a sense of clashing headlines as the latest U.S. jobs report shows the lowest unemployment in 50 years.

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