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- This week at Meta,

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formerly Facebook,

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a senior executive poorly advised managers

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of the company to identify

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and move to exit poor performing
employees at the company.

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The message made it seem like

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those removals could come
in the really near future.

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An internal post that
executives spoke pretty harshly

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about the employees saying they were,

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"not who we need"

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and suggested they were
failing the company.

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The tech industry as a
whole has been hurting

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with Netflix,

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Coinbase, Tesla,

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Klarna and many others
all announcing layoffs

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in recent months.

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Crunch Base estimates,

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some 24,000 workers have
lost their job so far

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this year in the tech industry.

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Zuckerberg hinted at the possibility of

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a layoff earlier this year.

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And Meta has struggled financially.

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So layoffs are possible,

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but the message posted Monday
could also be potentially read

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as a call for firings.

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In elite Q and A

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with employees last month,

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Zuckerberg supposedly said,

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"Realistically there are probably a bunch

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"of people at the company
who shouldn't be here."

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We asked Meta to clarify

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but haven't heard back.

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To read more about this story,

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Check out Gizmodo.com