{"id":45347,"date":"2026-02-13T20:01:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/meta-says-it-wont-chop-the-bottom-5-performers-this-year\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:01:24","slug":"meta-says-it-wont-chop-the-bottom-5-performers-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/meta-says-it-wont-chop-the-bottom-5-performers-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta says it won&#8217;t chop the bottom 5% performers this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6967081204eda4732f2f071f?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Mark Zuckerberg\"\/><figcaption>Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Meta<\/p>\n<p>David Paul Morris\/Bloomberg\/Getty Images\/Reuters<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Meta denies plans for new performance-based layoffs amid online speculation.<\/li>\n<li>Meta previously considered annual job cuts based on performance to manage low performers.<\/li>\n<li>Meta recently cut 10% of its Reality Labs division, affecting over 1,000 employees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meta says it will not have a fresh round of performance-based layoffs, even as a smattering of online chatter has raised questions about whether the social media giant will quietly restart its performance-driven purge.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;These are individual cases not related to any company wide initiatives,&quot; a Meta spokesperson told Business Insider when asked about a recent restructuring. &quot;For example we are not doing any 5% low performers like we did last year.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>That&#039;s a notable shift in tone from early 2025, when Business Insider reported that an internal FAQ circulating at Meta suggested performance-based job cuts could become an annual practice, with the company saying it &quot;may use future performance cycles&quot; to move out its lowest performers. Early last year, Meta cut 5% of its workforce, saying it was focusing on its lowest performers.<\/p>\n<p>The clarification also comes as Meta continues to reshape other parts of the business. Last month, the company cut about 10% of its Reality Labs division, a move that affected over 1,000 employees.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have a tip? Contact Pranav Dixit via email at <\/em><em>pranavdixit@protonmail.com<\/em><em>or Signal at 1-408-905-9124. Use a personal email address and a nonwork device; <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/insider-guide-to-securely-sharing-whistleblower-information-about-powerful-institutions-2021-10\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>here&#039;s our guide to sharing information securely<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Meta David Paul Morris\/Bloomberg\/Getty Images\/Reuters Meta denies plans for new performance-based layoffs amid online speculation. Meta previously considered annual job cuts based on performance to manage low performers. Meta recently cut 10% of its Reality Labs division, affecting over 1,000 employees. Meta says it will not have a fresh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}