Meta plans to cut low performers, affecting 3,600 jobs

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to quickly remove low performers, potentially cutting 3,600 jobs. This follows a chaotic purge of federal employees in the U.S. and a new UK initiative to streamline the dismissal of underachieving civil servants. While performance reviews have been common for decades, they often fail to accurately identify low performers. Many employees and managers find these reviews unfair and time-consuming, leading to dissatisfaction with the process. Some companies are shifting to continuous feedback systems, but these also require significant managerial time. The challenge of effectively assessing employee performance remains, complicating efforts to identify and remove low performers.