Meta Despatched Layoff E-mail to Fb Supervisor on Maternity Go away

• A Fb supervisor of over two years stated she was laid off whereas on maternity go away.
• Anneka Patel, the ex-manager, was named one of many high PR professionals by Insider in 2020.
• Meta laid off 11,000 staff, or 13% of its workforce.

A Meta worker has stated she was laid off whereas on maternity go away. 

Anneka Patel, a communications supervisor at Fb, wrote in a LinkedIn post on November 14 that she was one of many 1000’s of staff affected by Meta’s mass layoffs. 

Patel stated she obtained Meta’s layoff e-mail at 5.35 a.m. after a number of of her coworkers despatched her textual content messages saying they had been laid off.

“This morning I discovered I used to be one of many 11,000 staff impacted by the Meta #layoffs,” Patel, who labored at Meta for 2 and a half years, stated. “This hit me exhausting as I am at the moment out on maternity go away.”

In keeping with her LinkedIn profile, Patel managed communications for Meta’s group merchandise teams, which included Fb teams.

Patel’s put up garnered over 11,500 reactions and 560 feedback in every week. Patel was included in Insider’s May 2020 roundup of high professionals within the public relations trade.

Patel, former director of communications at Eventbrite, stated she was scheduled to be on maternity go away till February subsequent 12 months.

“For individuals who know me, working at Fb (now Meta) has been my dream ever since I moved from London to the Bay Space 9 years in the past,” Patel stated, including that she plans to spend time together with her three-month-old child earlier than in search of a brand new job.

On November 9 Meta introduced it could be slicing greater than 11,000 staff, or about 13% of its workforce. 

“I acquired this unsuitable, and I take accountability for that,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a blog post. Zuckerberg added that he sees layoffs “as a final resort,” however expects “cost-cutting modifications” to proceed within the coming months.

Patel was one of many a whole lot of former staff taking to LinkedIn to put in writing about their experiences of being laid off by Meta.

Insider previously reported that a number of Meta software program engineers stated they had been laid off simply two or three days after relocating from India to the corporate’s Canada workplace.

Different Meta staff wrote “badge posts” — departure messages with a photograph of their ID playing cards — upon receiving the dreaded layoff e-mail from the corporate, according to a recent Insider report.

Meta and Patel didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s requests for remark. When Insider contacted Patel by way of her Meta e-mail, we obtained an computerized response saying the “mailbox is not energetic” and to “contact one other individual on the firm.”