Staff at Facebook’s parent company Meta are finding out about redundancies today (Wednesday).
There are about 3,000 staff employed in Ireland, along with around 6,000 contractors.
A notice went go out to the firm’s 85,000 employees globally at 11 am.
Mark Zuckerberg says that he has decided to reduce the size of their team by about 13% and let more than 11,000 of our talented employees go.
It’s not sure yet how many of these are in Ireland.