Mark Zuckerberg’s popularity within Meta continues to decline. The latest survey conducted by the company between April and May has brought to light that only one in four employees questioned (26%) trusted his leadership and the direction Meta has taken. The results are known at a time marked by massive layoffs and the shift in the company’s short-term objectives; If until now the efforts were focused on the development of a metaverse that has not just taken off, the priority now is to join the artificial intelligence race.
This internal study seen by The Washington Post indicates that there has been a five percentage point drop since October 2022 in confidence in Meta’s direction. In addition, only 43% of the employees who responded said they felt valued, which represents a decrease of 15 percentage points.
Nearly two months after Meta cut thousands of jobs on the company’s technical teams, workers are still dealing with the fallout, and the cuts continue to affect the morale of current and former employees. Proof of this is that the workers dedicated to Facebook have spent weeks dividing up the responsibilities that they have inherited from their colleagues.
A few days ago, Mark Zuckerberg himself, CEO of Meta, held a meeting in which he presented the roadmap for the company’s next products with a particularly important focus on the company’s innovations in artificial intelligence, including a set of new tools that workers can start experimenting with.
Zuckerberg’s speech encouraged workers to give their all: “We are going to play an important and unique role in the industry to bring these capabilities to billions of people in new ways that other people are not going to do,” said the one who was a co-founder of Facebook, according to sources consulted by The Washington Post.
However, Zuckerberg’s words do not seem to have permeated the majority of his employees: “In general, we don’t know what we are supposed to do or why we exist,” says one of the workers in the Meta operations area anonymously, greatly affected by uncertainty about the future.
