{"id":157926,"date":"2023-02-14T02:23:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T08:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/some-meta-employees-are-getting-paid-to-do-zero-work-as-the-company-embarks-on-a-year-of-efficiency-financial-times"},"modified":"2023-02-14T02:23:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T08:23:51","slug":"some-meta-employees-are-getting-paid-to-do-zero-work-as-the-company-embarks-on-a-year-of-efficiency-financial-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/some-meta-employees-are-getting-paid-to-do-zero-work-as-the-company-embarks-on-a-year-of-efficiency-financial-times","title":{"rendered":"Some Meta employees are getting paid to do \u2018zero work\u2019 as the company embarks on a \u2018year of efficiency\u2019: Financial Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/some-meta-employees-are-getting-paid-to-do-zero-work-as-the-company-embarks-on-a-year-of-efficiency-financial-times2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tech giant \u2014 which laid off 11,000 people in November and promised that 2023 is to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mark-zuckerberg-year-efficiency-meta-facebook-could-mean-more-layoffs-2023-2\" id=\"d0298a63-5281-470c-8a4e-2f2ff53a237a\">\u201cyear of efficiency\u201d<\/a> \u2014 is gearing up for a new round of layoffs that might be wreaking havoc with some of the teams\u2019 productivity, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/3f3c3fe7-fedd-4fcd-a3d9-6ce44fe56e08\" id=\"3540425a-effa-44ba-bd42-d38b50209a77\">Financial Times<\/a> reported on Saturday, citing two employees familiar with the situation.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s been a lack of clarity about some budgets \u2014 which would typically get finalized by the end of the year \u2014 and future head count in recent weeks. Hence, projects and decisions that typically take days to sign off are taking up to a month, the Meta staffers told the FT.<\/p>\n<p>That has caused some staff to do \u201czero work\u201d because managers have not been able to plan their schedules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tech giant \u2014 which laid off 11,000 people in November and promised that 2023 is to be a \u201cyear of efficiency\u201d \u2014 is gearing up for a new round of layoffs that might be wreaking havoc with some of the teams\u2019 productivity, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing two employees familiar with the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}