Meta preparing to make major cuts to workforce

The company that runs Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, Meta, is getting ready to massively reduce its workforce, making it the third major tech company in recent weeks to do so after Twitter and Stripe.

Numerous thousands of employees are anticipated to be impacted by the cuts, according to a Sunday Wall Street Journal report. As soon as Wednesday, the reductions might be revealed.

In Ireland, Meta employs thousands of people, with 3,000 of those working in Dublin.

A total of 6,000 more people work at various locations, including Reality Labs in Cork, the Clonee data center in Co. Meath, and Meta’s global headquarters in Dublin.

The information was released a few days after it was revealed that Twitter would cut its workforce in half.

Twitter employs around 500 people at its European headquarters at their Cumberland Place office in Dublin.

Earlier this week, Taoiseach Micheál Martin criticised Twitter’s firing practises, calling them ” not acceptable ” and “fairly unprecedented.”

 “We are concerned, and our concern is there for the employees of Twitter,” the Taoiseach told reporters in Co Tipperary.

The layoffs are part of the dramatic takeover of the dominant social media platform by tech billionaire Elon Musk.

“There seems to be a fairly unprecedented approach being adopted here to a global workforce and that’s manifesting itself in Ireland.

“What I would say is no matter who you are or what sector you are in, one must always treat people with dignity and respect, and the employees at Twitter deserve to be treated with respect.”

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