This is why companies don't announce layoffs before they know who will be impacted, as frustrating as it can be. My morale would be in the gutter too if I had to spend a month wondering whether I'm the unlucky 1 in 10.

I survived two rounds of layoffs at a company. Each time there was a message from the CEO, and a drawn out process of learning who had kept their job and who hadn't. It was supposed to be more humane but it ended up making things much worse.

When I was finally laid off, there was no notice at all. Ripping off the band-aid was better (though it still sucked).

I don't think that matters at Meta. They purposefully create this "survival of the fittest" environment, making sure they squeeze every ounce of work (and soul) from you.

That doesn't really work if you have as many frequent layoffs as Meta has had as everyone will be thinking about it constantly, along with the collapse of one of its major endeavors (Metaverse) and people realizing that the cash bonfire could have been in their pockets instead.

This has been building with every layoff, reorg, roadmap thrash, policy rug pull, etc since roughly 2022.

It ratchets up both after the silent layoffs, and before the announced ones; after the silent refresher reductions, and the announced MCI-like initiatives.

It's nice to think morale is only bottoming out for a month, but in actuality it is spiraling catastrophically.

They don't care. Only 5% of their people contribute to the bottom line. Rest are all deadweight.