“You’ve really put your heart and soul into this place,” Mark Zuckerberg said in a video call to outgoing employees as he eliminated their jobs. The layoffs affected about 11,000 people, or 13% of the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg offered words of appreciation and encouragement to outgoing employees as he eliminated their jobs Wednesday, according to a recording of a video call he held to explain his decision.
The call was one of two separate ones that Zuckerberg held Wednesday with Meta employees, according to a source familiar with the matter: one call for laid-off employees and one for those not affected. “I’m the founder and CEO. I’m responsible for the health of our company, for our direction and for deciding how we execute that, including things like this. And this was ultimately my call,” he said.
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