1. How many jobs did Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tell employees in a memo in January the company was planning to eliminate?

2. In what areas will Meta invest amidst the announced job eliminations?

3. a) How did Zuckerberg determine which employees jobs would be cut?
b) How did he explain this in his memo to employees?

4. Why did some of the employees who were laid off/fired complain?

5. a) What do employees in Meta's Reality Labs division do?
b) How many employees were fired from that division in April?

6. What did Meta tell managers to do in a June memo? Why?

7. How did Alexandr Wang, Meta's new chief AI officer explain the cuts he made to Meta's Superintelligence Labs division?

8. How is Meta helping those employees they let go?

9. What do you think is the most important thing to learn from this type of news story?

10. a) Do you think most successful/profitable companies employ people based on their performance - or based on "seniority" (last hired, first fired) irregardless of performance?

b) Ask a parent what he/she thinks about this.