Pandemic boom to layoff season: How Big Tech, start-ups got it wrong
Business Standard|November 10, 2022
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta, summed it up well as he explained the reason for the company sacking 13 per cent of its employees.
SHIVANI SHINDE
Pandemic boom to layoff season: How Big Tech, start-ups got it wrong

He said no one predicted that the boom for digital services during the Covid pandemic would die out.

"Many people predicted this would be a permanent acceleration that would continue even after the pandemic ended. I did too, so I made the decision to significantly increase our investments.

Unfortunately, this did not play out the way I expected," he wrote to his employees.

Zuckerberg further explained: "Not only has online commerce returned to prior trends, but the macroeconomic downturn, increased competition, and ads signal loss have caused our revenue to be much lower than I'd expected. I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that." Meta added 28,396 net employees from end of December 2020 till September 2022, taking the total headcount to 87,000.

Whereas it added 13,366 and 13,662 in 2020 and 2021 respectively.

This is the base reason for recent layoffs at many tech firms.

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