It wasn’t until mid-March 2023 that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to announce that the company had to lay off another 10,000 employees. Between the end of 2022 and March 2023, a total of 21,000 employees were laid off and a further 5,000 planned jobs were eliminated. Tech giants such as Google, Amazon and Spotify in particular have recently made many employees redundant.
A former Meta employee on her TikTok channel maddie_macho explains why so many positions are open as at Meta and then twice as many are terminated. She is said to have been employed by Meta as a recruiter. Although recruiters are hired to recruit new employees, she was told not to hire anyone for the first six to 12 months.
Recruiters who are not supposed to hire staff
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By her own admission, the recruiter didn’t exhaust the full 12 months at Meta, during which she basically had nothing to do. For a salary of just under $190,000 a year, she was happy to take the company’s instructive training courses with her.
“The crazy part is we’ve had so many team meetings. Why are we meeting? We’re not hiring anyone… Also, I was on a team where everyone was new, so none of us were hiring anyone. We all just trying to find our way. Neither of us knew the answers so we asked our boss and she said, ‘I don’t know’ because she was new too,” the ex-Meta employee wrote on TikTok.
Posting jobs when you’re not looking for anyone – a common tactic
So there was nothing for new recruiters to do at Meta. The question then arises, why hire a recruiter at all and not rather save useless salaries? The answer: to keep up appearances.
It should look as if the company would continue to grow. At the same time, however, the pressure on the employees is increasing. The fake job postings convey an image that the company is constantly looking for highly qualified personnel that could replace the existing job of an employee who is already employed.
This is also the reason why many applicants do not receive any feedback on a job advertisement and this position is still advertised months later. The Wall Street Journal recently highlighted this phenomenon again.
In a summer 2022 survey of more than 1,000 HR managers, 27 percent of HR managers said they had posted job ads for more than four months. Of those who said they had advertised positions they were not actively trying to fill, nearly half said they kept the ads up to give the impression that the company was growing.
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In the case of Meta, this appearance has been maintained so convincingly that they have even hired extra recruiters. According to the ex-recruiter, it is no longer surprising that the 5,000 planned jobs were also cut in addition to the 10,000 layoffs.
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