The Silent Scream: How Meta's "Low Performers" Are Redefining the Post-Layoff Narrative on LinkedIn
Meta's recent layoffs, branded as targeting "low performers," have sparked a new wave of post-layoff narratives on LinkedIn.
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The Silent Scream: How Meta's "Low Performers" Are Redefining the Post-Layoff Narrative on LinkedIn
The post-layoff LinkedIn post has become a familiar, almost cliché, fixture in the modern digital landscape. Often characterized by an air of polite optimism, these posts see departing employees expressing gratitude for their time at the company, highlighting past accomplishments, and signaling their availability for new opportunities with the ubiquitous #opentowork hashtag. It's a carefully crafted performance of professionalism, a way to maintain appearances and network for future employment in the aftermath of often jarring job losses. However, the recent layoffs at Meta, impacting 4,000 employees, presented a unique challenge to this established pattern. CEO Mark Zuckerberg's explicit labeling of the cuts as a move to eliminate "low performers" cast a long shadow over the departing employees. This wasn't a generic restructuring or a vague "downsizing"; it was a public declaration of perceived underperformance, a scarlet letter in the professional…
