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Will you become one of them? x Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs The company plans to lay off employees on Wednesday, according to sources. By Shirin Ghaffary Apr 18, 2023, 5:15pm EDT Share this story * Share this on Facebook * Share this on Twitter * Share All sharing options Share All sharing options for: Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs * Reddit * Pocket * Flipboard * Email Mark Zuckerberg in a suit walking across an entry with a cameraman pointing a large shoulder-mounted camera at him. Mark Zuckerberg leaving a federal courthouse in San Jose in February 2022. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Shirin Ghaffary is a senior Vox correspondent covering the social media industry. Previously, Ghaffary worked at BuzzFeed News, the San Francisco Chronicle, and TechCrunch. Meta is expected to conduct another mass round of layoffs on Wednesday, several sources working at the company told Vox. The cuts could be in the range of 4,000 jobs, one source said. The layoffs come after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in March that the company would cut 10,000 more jobs in the coming months, after already cutting 11,000 in November. Zuckerberg previously said that cuts in April would impact tech departments, while another planned round of cuts in May will impact the business side of the company. At the end of last year, Meta, which is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, had around 86,000 employees. Sources spoke with Vox on the condition of anonymity because of concern about professional repercussions. Meta declined to comment. Related Leaked memo: Meta executive warns employees they're still "at the whim of Apple" Meta's continued layoffs are part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plans for a "year of efficiency" in 2023. The layoffs are a reminder that after nearly two decades of almost uninterrupted growth, major tech companies like Meta are now undergoing an intense period of cutbacks and belt-tightening measures. Silicon Valley as a whole has been going through an economic downturn that has drastically changed what was once considered a free-spending work culture. Long gone are the days of unlimited perks, travel, and nonstop hiring. And in the past year, almost every major tech company has had rounds of layoffs. Meta's have been particularly painful, with the company issuing the cuts in waves. "This will be tough and there's no way around that," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post last month. "Over the next couple of months, org leaders will announce restructuring plans focused on flattening our orgs, canceling lower priority projects, and reducing our hiring rates." Related What Meta employees really think about their company's brutal year While the stock market responded well to Meta's layoffs last year, employee morale has suffered. Vox reported in January that internal employee sentiment surveys about optimism and confidence in leadership at the company were the lowest they had been in recent memory. Several sources described working in a state of limbo for the past few months and that it's hard to get any work done. Do you work at Meta and have thoughts about what's going on at the company? You can send us a tip at shirin.ghaffary@protonmail.com. We can grant requests for anonymity if needed. Signal number available upon request. "I think people are getting tired of all this and are just ignoring this now," said one Meta employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. 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