Meta fired about two dozen staffers in Los Angeles who were abusing the company's program of providing $25 meal vouchers for use in the office, according to a new report.
Tech giant Meta reportedly fired roughly two dozen staffers based in Los Angeles for abusing the company's $25 meal vouchers to purchase non-food household items. The Financial Times reported that Meta fired the workers last week after the company discovered that the workers were abusing its food credit system by using the funds to buy other household items, ranging from acne pads and wine glasses to laundry detergent.
The FT reviewed a post on the anonymous messaging platform Blind, in which a former Meta staffer, who indicated that they had a salary of about $400,000 at the tech giant, said they had used the $25 meal credits to purchase groceries like toothpaste and tea at the Rite Aid pharmacy.
Meta — the parent company of Facebook and Instagram — has been on a restructuring push the last few years, and the FT reported that the tech giant is also in the midst of a fresh round of layoffs and changes to some of its teams. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in November 2022 that Meta was laying off more than 11,000 workers, and followed that up with another round of layoffs that affected 10,000 workers in the spring of 2023 during what he dubbed the "Year of Efficiency.
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