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Updated on: Mar 2023

Industry

Facebook may demote middle managers

Mar 3, 2023

Meta gives poor performance reviews to thousands of employees

According to Wall Street Journal reports, American multinational technology conglomerate, Meta form...

Work Model

Feb 20, 2023

Meta gives poor performance reviews to thousands of employees

Elon Musk has an opening apply if you are foolish enough

Elon Musk current Twitter CEO has an opening for the organization you can apply if you are fo...

Movement

Dec 21, 2022

Elon Musk has an opening apply if you are foolish enough

Meta cuts employees benefits to reduce cost

An American multinational technology conglomerate, Meta to reduce cost, is reportedly planning to cu...

Compensation

Dec 16, 2022

Meta cuts employees benefits to reduce cost

Industry

Communications Manager at Facebook laid off on maternity leave

Meta has recently laid off over 11,000 jobs which are nearly 13% of its workforce. Anneka Patel is one of the employees affected by the layoffs. Anneka Patel was a Communications Manager at Facebook and has recently been laid off during her maternity leave. She shared her story on her LinkedIn profile. Anneka Patel said on […]

Nov 10, 2022

Layoffs

Facebook may lay off 12000 employees

Meta is reportedly conducting ‘quiet layoffs‘ at Facebook that may lead to thousands of job cuts — at least 12,000 or about 15 per cent of its workforce. According to a report in Insider, the senior executives are in the process of executing “quiet layoffs” of underperforming workers. Several employees told Insider that as much as 15 […]

Oct 7, 2022

Industry

Meta slashes hiring plans in 2022

The social media and technology company, Meta Platforms (META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg informed the employees that the company has cut plans to hire engineers by at least 30% this year. The company has reduced its target for hiring engineers in 2022 to around 6,000-7,000, down from an initial plan to hire about 10,000 new engineers, […]

Jul 4, 2022

Industry

Airbnb, Accenture, Spotify, and a few more companies are leaving Russia

According to Barrons report, Airbnb late Thursday said it would suspend its operations in Russia and Belarus. The home-rental company joins Volkswagen, Accenture, and Spotify as the latest Western companies to suspend operations in Russia following President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Brian Chesky, chief executive of Airbnb, announced his company’s suspension of operations in Russia via a tweet late Thursday. Volkswagen, the German car manufacturer, announced […]

Mar 4, 2022

Work Model

These 8 companies have shifted to permanent WFH for all employees

With the COVID-19 pandemic bringing unprecedented changes in work-life; along with masks and sanitizers, working from home (WFH) became a lifestyle change for professionals. The remote work trend was initially forced on employees due to the pandemic, however, after two years remote working has become a new normal. Most of the employees (80%) admitted that they prefer […]

Feb 19, 2022

Work Model

These 8 companies have shifted to permanent WFH for all employees

Feb 16, 2022

C-Suite Move

Meta appoints Tony Xu as a board member

Meta has announced that Tony Xu, co-founder, and CEO of DoorDash, Inc., has been elected to the company’s board of directors, effective immediately. Mark Zuckerberg, founder, and CEO of Meta, said, “Tony has built a great service for millions of people to get food and more from hundreds of thousands of restaurants and small businesses.” […]

Feb 4, 2022

Industry

Facebook creating 10,000 new jobs across the EU

Facebook says it plans to hire 10,000 workers in the European Union over the next five years to work on a new computing platform. The company said in a blog post on Sunday that those high-skilled workers will help build “the metaverse”, a futuristic notion for connecting people online that encompasses augmented and virtual reality. Facebook says […]

Oct 18, 2021

Industry

Microsoft announces Rs 1.12 lakh as a pandemic bonus for all employees

Technology major, Microsoft has announced to give all of its employees $1,500 (over Rs 1.12 lakh) pandemic bonus, in recognition of a challenging fiscal year. According to The Verge report, Microsoft is gifting the bonus to all staff below the Corporate Vice President level that started on or before March 31, 2021. The company will also include […]

Jul 9, 2021

Jobs

Facebook sets reopening for Silicon Valley campuses

Facebook sets reopening for Silicon Valley campuses Facebook on Friday said its Silicon Valley offices will begin reopening to workers in May after a yearlong pandemic shutdown, but without perks such as free food and commuter shuttles. The Menlo Park headquarters and other locations in the region will start with 10 percent of “maximum seated capacity,” the […]

Mar 27, 2021

Jobs

India antitrust watchdog orders probe into WhatsApp’s new privacy policy

India antitrust watchdog orders probe into WhatsApp’s new privacy policy India’s competition watchdog on Wednesday ordered a probe into a WhatsApp privacy policy update, saying the Facebook Inc-owned messaging service had breached antitrust laws. The update announced in January, which will take effect in May, allows WhatsApp to share some user data with Facebook and […]

Mar 25, 2021

Industry

10,000 workers now part of Facebook AR/VR division

10,000 workers now part of Facebook AR/VR division Nearly 10,000 Facebook employees – almost a fifth of its total workforce — are currently working in the augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) labs, clearly indicating that the social network has bet really big on the immersive technology. According to The Information, Facebook has planned an aggressive […]

Mar 13, 2021