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Meta plans to lay off 10% of its workforce in May, according to report (www.nbcbayarea.com)
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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

I don't understand how Facebook has so many employees. What do they do, what does their standard day look like.

If I don't show up to my job there's loads of tasks that wouldn't get done but Facebook is a website, it can't honestly need so many employees especially when they never really change anything.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

I don’t mean this in a way that suggests Facebook is culturally important and good in any fashion, but Facebook does a LOT of different things and in fact is a multitude of websites and features in a trench coat. Whether they are bloated with employees or not, it makes perfect sense for Facebook to have a metric ton of employees. Also it’s not just Facebook, it’s Meta as a company so there are plenty of people working there who have nothing to do with the website.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago

They change the flavors in the frozen yogurt kombucha machine.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

facebook is one of the backbones of the internet. that's why.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Right that's why I mean that what does the average Facebook employee do when they get in in the morning?

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes ago* (last edited 44 minutes ago)

the same as any other employee at any other tech or other company. mostly emails and meetings. a few hours of actual work.