Layoffs could affect 5 percent of the workforce as its CEO seeks to “raise the bar on performance management,” according to a memo viewed by The Post.

Meta plans to push out thousands of “low-performers” next month, in Bay Area tech’s first massive job cut of 2025. CEO Mark Zuckerberg intends to push out and replace roughly 5% of the employees who’ve been at the Menlo Park tech giant long enough to go through the company’s performance review process,

The company specified that it is “exiting approximately 5% of our lowest performers” in a separate message posted by a company director.

Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the cuts are necessary as the company builds ‘the most important technologies in the world.’

Meta notified employees Tuesday that it plans to lay off the lowest-performing 5% of its staff, or roughly 3600 people. Why it matters: It's the third round of major layoffs at Meta in the past three years.