Meta Declares ‘No More Performance Purges,’ Despite Talking About Annual 5% Cuts

KEY POINTS

•Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s company denied fresh plans for company-wide performance-based layoffs in 2026.
•Last year, Meta cut 5% of employees focused on low performers, fueling talk about annual job purges.
•Despite no fresh cuts, Meta recently reduced about 10% of its Reality Labs division, firing over 1,000 workers.

Meta, the social media overlord helmed by Mark Zuckerberg, is currently tossing out confusing signals about layoffs. Last year, Meta chopped 5% of its workforce, presumably blaming the bottom performers like bad Tinder dates. An internal 2025 FAQ hinted at making these purges an annual tradition—five percent time every year to weed out ‘low performers.’ Fast forward, and now Meta swears there are no plans for a fresh 5% cull, calling recent firings just 'individual cases' unrelated to company-wide efforts. Oddly, last month Reality Labs—Meta’s VR pet project—is still slicing 10%, placing over 1,000 employees in the unemployment queue. Surprisingly, this message was passed by a Meta spokesperson to Business Insider, possibly to save the company’s reputation or just confuse us more.

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Meta’s version of ‘no layoffs’ is as clear as their VR headset explaining why 1,000 employees just got benched. Innovation or administration Dodgeball?

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