据悉，此次受到影响的团队或包括Reality Labs、Instagram和WhatsApp。据Meta的一名发言人称，Threads、招聘和法律运营团队未受到裁员波及，但其拒绝透露具体裁员规模，只透露规模不大。①Meta has entered the 'efficiency year' since 2022, having already laid off nearly 21,000 people in the past two years; ②On Wednesday, Meta confirmed restructuring in multiple teams, including Reality Labs, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Financial Union Society news on October 17th (edited by Malan).$Meta Platforms (META.US)$Adjusted multiple business teams on Wednesday and announced plans to reallocate internal company resources.
A Meta spokesperson emphasized in an email statement that some of Meta's teams are undergoing adjustments to ensure resources align with the company's long-term goals and strategies. This includes relocating some teams to different locations and reassigning some employees to different positions. When positions have to be eliminated, Meta is also looking for other opportunities for employees.
It is reported that the teams affected this time may include Reality Labs, Instagram, and WhatsApp. According to a Meta spokesperson, Teams such as Threads, Recruitment, and Legal operation were not affected by the layoffs, but they refused to disclose the specific scale of layoffs, only mentioning that the scale is not large.
This is not the first time Meta has laid off employees in recent years. In 2022, Meta laid off about 13% of its employees, approximately 11,000 people; In 2023, Meta laid off another 10,000 employees and froze 5,000 open positions.
Efficiency year after year.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 'efficiency year' has gone on year after year. Starting from 2022, due to cost-cutting efforts, Meta had to lay off a large number of employees. This move has been welcomed by the capital markets, Meta's stock price has risen by 66% this year.
Meta's financial performance in the past two quarters has also been impressive. In Q1, the company earned $36.46 billion, a 27% year-on-year increase; In Q2, its revenue reached $39.07 billion, a 22% year-on-year increase, and both quarters' revenues exceeded Wall Street's forecasts.
The company also predicts that the digital advertising revenue in the third quarter is very optimistic, which will cover Meta's investment in ai, making the US stock market full of expectations.
As part of Meta's ai advancement plan, the company recently launched the Llama 3.2 ai model, which includes a visual model with 11 billion and 900 billion parameters, as well as a lightweight pure text model with 1 billion and 30 billion parameters, designed to run efficiently on edge and mobile devices.
The emergence of the Llama model also highlights Meta's ambition and capability to compete with rivals such as OpenAI and Google in the ai field.
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