Meta, Facebook’s parent company has announced it will lay off 13 per cent of its global workforce. Chief Executive Officer, Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, who confirmed this yesterday, said about 11,000 persons would be affected by the purge.
The company will also cut discretionary spending and extend its hiring freeze through Q1,2023, meaning that the company will not be hiring until after the stated period.
It was gathered that part of this cost-cutting includes laying off thousands of its workforce across the globe, which would also affect Nigerians in the diaspora and in Africa. As at 2016, some 18 brilliant Nigerians worked closely with Zukerberg as some came with him to Nigeria when he visited the country in 2016 and 2018.
Sources monitoring developments at the social media platform claimed that over the last five years, the number of Nigerians working at Meta has increased due to the brilliance demonstrated by Nigerian employees.
