Facebook parent company Meta has announced another round of layoffs. Mark Zuckerberg is planning to fire 3,600 employees. This is not the first time when Meta has announced layoffs. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the performance-based cuts are intended to ensure that the company has the "strongest talent" and is able to "bring new people in.

Meta's recently announced cuts come after several restructuring efforts by the social media giant in recent years.

Meta is planning to slash roughly 5% of its staff this year in a move aimed at weeding out under-performers, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed on Tuesday. In a memo to employees on Meta’s internal message board,

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