Meta layoffs: Singapore employees affected across many departments; spreadsheets circulating to help job hunt

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Affected Singapore employees of the Facebook parent, who were among the 11,000 laid off worldwide, took to LinkedIn to announce the news and seek new job opportunities.

SINGAPORE: Following Meta's announcement that it would lay off 11,000 employees, affected staff in Singapore – in departments ranging from marketing to engineering – took to networking platform LinkedIn to share the news of their retrenchment.

The mass layoffs, among the biggest this year and the first in Meta's 18-year history, came after thousands of job cuts at other tech companies includingAccording to layoff tracking website, layoffs.fyi, the number of tech layoffs in 2022 accounts for more than half the layoffs since COVID-19. Asst Prof Liu said sharing such resources is her way of standing with the community as a tech researcher.

"Product-related roles have also taken a hit as companies try hard to improve their profitability, and across the sectors teams seem to be getting leaner."Despite being laid off, many Meta employees in Singapore expressed gratitude for the chance to have worked at the company. Another employee, Roy Tan, who was the head of politics and government outreach for APAC, penned a LinkedIn post with three lessons he learnt from Meta over the last six years: Be an ally to your colleagues, listen to one another and show compassion.

 

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