Today I’m sharing some of the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history. I’ve decided to reduce the size of our team by about 13% and let more than 11,000 of our talented employees go. We are also taking a number of additional steps to become a leaner and more efficient company by cutting discretionary spending and extending our hiring freeze through Q1.
“今天，我将与大家分享我们在Meta历史上做出的一些最困难的改变。我已决定将我们团队的规模缩减约13%，并让11000多名有才华的员工离开。我们还采取了一些额外的措施，通过削减可自由支配的开支和延长在明年第一季度的招聘冻结期，成为一家更精简、更高效的公司。
I want to take accountability for these decisions and for how we got here. I know this is tough for everyone, and I’m especially sorry to those impacted.
我想对这些决定和我们的现状负责。我知道这对每个人来说都很艰难，我对那些受影响的人感到特别抱歉。
How did we get here?
我们是怎么走到这一步的?
At the start of Covid, the world rapidly moved online and the surge of e-commerce led to outsized revenue growth. Many people predicted this would be a permanent acceleration that would continue even after the pandemic ended. I did too, so I made the decision to significantly increase our investments. Unfortunately, this did not play out the way I expected. Not only has online commerce returned to prior trends, but the macroeconomic downturn, increased competition, and ads signal loss have caused our revenue to be much lower than I’d expected. I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that.
在疫情开始之初，世界迅速转向网络，电子商务的激增导致收入大幅增长。许多人预测这将是一个永久的加速，甚至在疫情结束后还会继续。我也是，所以我决定大幅增加我们的投资。不幸的是，这并没有按照我预期的方式进行。不仅在线商务回到了以前的趋势，而且宏观经济衰退、竞争加剧和广告丢失导致我们的收入远低于我的预期。我弄错了，我对此负责。
In this new environment, we need to become more capital efficient. We’ve shifted more of our resources onto a smaller number of high priority growth areas — like our AI discovery engine, our ads and business platforms, and our long-term vision for the metaverse. We’ve cut costs across our business, including scaling back budgets, reducing perks, and shrinking our real estate footprint. We’re restructuring teams to increase our efficiency. But these measures alone won’t bring our expenses in line with our revenue growth, so I’ve also made the hard decision to let people go.
在这种新环境下，我们需要提高资本效率。我们已经将更多的资源转移到数量较少的高优先级增长领域——如我们的人工智能发现引擎、我们的广告和商业平台，以及我们对元宇宙的长期愿景。我们已经削减了整个业务的成本，包括缩减预算、减少津贴和缩小我们的房地产占地面积。我们正在重组团队以提高效率。但是仅仅这些措施并不能使我们的开支与收入增长保持一致，所以我也做出了裁员的艰难决定。
How will this work?
这将如何运作？
There is no good way to do a layoff, but we hope to get all the relevant information to you as quickly as possible and then do whatever we can to support you through this.
没有裁员的好办法，但我们希望尽快把所有相关信息发给你，然后尽我们所能支持你度过难关。
Everyone will get an email soon letting you know what this layoff means for you. After that, every affected employee will have the opportunity to speak with someone to get their questions answered and join information sessions.
每个人都会很快收到一封电子邮件，让你知道这次裁员对你意味着什么。之后，每个受影响的员工都将有机会与他人交谈，以获得他们的问题的答案，并参加信息会议。
Some of the details in the US include:
美国的一些细节包括：
Severance. We will pay 16 weeks of base pay plus two additional weeks for every year of service, with no cap.
遣散费。我们将支付16周的基本工资，并为每一年的服务额外支付两周的工资，没有上限。
PTO. We’ll pay for all remaining PTO time
美国专利商标局（PTO）。我们将支付所有剩余的专利商标权时间。
RSU vesting. Everyone impacted will receive their November 15, 2022 vesting.
限制性股票RSU。所有受影响的人都将于2022年11月15日获得他们的授予权。
Health insurance. We’ll cover the cost of healthcare for people and their families for six months.
健康保险。我们将支付人们及其家人六个月的医疗保健费用。
Career services. We’ll provide three months of career support with an external vendor, including early access to unpublished job leads.
职业服务。我们将向外部供应商提供三个月的职业支持，包括提前获取未发布的职位信息。
Immigration support. I know this is especially difficult if you’re here on a visa. There’s a notice period before termination and some visa grace periods, which means everyone will have time to make plans and work through their immigration status. We have dedicated immigration specialists to help guide you based on what you and your family need.
移民支持。我知道如果你是持签证来这里的，这尤其困难。在终止之前有一个通知期和一些签证宽限期，这意味着每个人都有时间制定计划，并通过他们的移民身份工作。我们有专门的移民专家根据您和您家人的需要来帮助指导您。
Outside the US, support will be similar, and we’ll follow up soon with separate processes that take into account local employment laws.
在美国之外，支持将是类似的，我们将很快跟进考虑当地劳动法的单独流程。
We made the decision to remove access to most Meta systems for people leaving today given the amount of access to sensitive information. But we’re keeping email addresses active throughout the day so everyone can say farewell.
鉴于敏感信息的访问权限，我们决定取消今天离职人员对大多数元系统的访问权限。但我们全天保持电子邮件地址活跃，这样每个人都可以说再见。
While we’re making reductions in every organization across both Family of Apps and Reality Labs, some teams will be affected more than others. Recruiting will be disproportionately affected since we’re planning to hire fewer people next year. We’re also restructuring our business teams more substantially. This is not a reflection of the great work these groups have done, but what we need going forward. The leaders of each group will schedule time to discuss what this means for your team over the next couple of days.
虽然我们正在每个组织中削减应用程序系列和现实实验室，但一些团队受到的影响会比其他团队更大。招聘将受到不成比例的影响，因为我们计划明年雇佣更少的人。我们也在更大程度上重组我们的业务团队。这并不是这些团体所做的伟大工作的反映，而是我们前进所需要的。在接下来的几天里，每组的领导将安排时间讨论这对你的团队意味着什么。
The teammates who will be leaving us are talented and passionate, and have made an important impact on our company and community. Each of you have helped make Meta a success, and I’m grateful for it. I’m sure you’ll go on to do great work at other places.
即将离开我们的队友才华横溢、充满激情，对我们的公司和社区产生了重要影响。你们每个人都帮助Meta取得了成功，我对此表示感谢。我相信你会在其他地方继续做伟大的工作。
What other changes are we making?
我们还做了哪些改变？
I view layoffs as a last resort, so we decided to rein in other sources of cost before letting teammates go. Overall, this will add up to a meaningful cultural shift in how we operate. For example, as we shrink our real estate footprint, we’re transitioning to desk sharing for people who already spend most of their time outside the office. We’ll roll out more cost-cutting changes like this in the coming months.
我认为裁员是最后的手段，所以我们决定在解雇队友之前控制其他成本来源。总的来说，这将使我们的经营方式发生有意义的文化转变。例如，随着我们缩小我们的房地产占地面积，我们正在过渡到为那些已经在办公室外度过大部分时间的人共享办公桌。在接下来的几个月里，我们将推出更多类似这样的成本削减变革。
We’re also extending our hiring freeze through Q1 with a small number of exceptions. I’m going to watch our business performance, operational efficiency, and other macroeconomic factors to determine whether and how much we should resume hiring at that point. This will give us the ability to control our cost structure in the event of a continued economic downturn. It will also put us on a path to achieve a more efficient cost structure than we outlined to investors recently.
除了少数例外，我们还将冻结明年第一季度的招聘。我将观察我们的业务表现、运营效率和其他宏观经济因素，以确定我们是否应该恢复招聘以及恢复多少。这将使我们能够在经济持续低迷的情况下控制成本结构。这也将使我们走上一条实现比我们最近向投资者概述的更有效的成本结构的道路。
I’m currently in the middle of a thorough review of our infrastructure spending. As we build our AI infrastructure, we’re focused on becoming even more efficient with our capacity. Our infrastructure will continue to be an important advantage for Meta, and I believe we can achieve this while spending less.
我目前正在彻底审查我们的基础设施支出。当我们建立我们的人工智能基础设施时，我们专注于更有效地利用我们的能力。我们的基础设施将继续成为Meta的一个重要优势，我相信我们可以在花费更少的情况下实现这一点。
Fundamentally, we’re making all these changes for two reasons: our revenue outlook is lower than we expected at the beginning of this year, and we want to make sure we’re operating efficiently across both Family of Apps and Reality Labs.
从根本上说，我们做出所有这些改变有两个原因：我们的收入前景低于我们今年年初的预期，我们希望确保我们在应用程序家族和现实实验室两方面都有效运营。
How do we move forward?
我们如何前进？
This is a sad moment, and there’s no way around that. To those who are leaving, I want to thank you again for everything you’ve put into this place. We would not be where we are today without your hard work, and I’m grateful for your contributions.
这是一个悲伤的时刻，这是无可避免的。对于那些即将离开的人，我想再次感谢你们为这个地方所做的一切。没有你们的辛勤工作，我们就不会有今天，我非常感谢你们的贡献。
To those who are staying, I know this is a difficult time for you too. Not only are we saying goodbye to people we’ve worked closely with, but many of you also feel uncertainty about the future. I want you to know that we’re making these decisions to make sure our future is strong.
对于那些留下来的人，我知道这对你们来说也是一个艰难的时刻。我们不仅要和曾经密切合作的人说再见，而且你们中的许多人也对未来感到不确定。我想让你们知道，我们做出这些决定是为了确保我们的未来是强大的。
I believe we are deeply underestimated as a company today. Billions of people use our services to connect, and our communities keep growing. Our core business is among the most profitable ever built with huge potential ahead. And we’re leading in developing the technology to define the future of social connection and the next computing platform. We do historically important work. I’m confident that if we work efficiently, we’ll come out of this downturn stronger and more resilient than ever.
我相信，作为一家公司，我们今天被严重低估了。数十亿人使用我们的服务进行联系，我们的社区也在不断发展。我们的核心业务是有史以来最赚钱的业务之一，未来潜力巨大。我们在开发定义未来社交联系和下一代计算平台的技术方面处于领先地位。我们做着具有历史意义的工作。我相信，如果我们高效地工作，我们将会比以往任何时候都更强大、更有弹性地走出这次衰退。
We’ll share more on how we’ll operate as a streamlined organization to achieve our priorities in the weeks ahead. For now, I’ll say one more time how thankful I am to those of you who are leaving for everything you’ve done to advance our mission.
我们将分享更多关于我们如何作为一个精简的组织运作，以实现我们在未来几周的优先事项。现在，我要再说一次，我是多么感谢那些即将离开的人，感谢你们为推进我们的使命所做的一切。
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