In the midst of layoffs, Meta’s senior executive will depart the company after 14 years

Notwithstanding Levy’s departure, Meta stated that corporate communications will continue to be a strategic priority for the company this year.

Dan Levy, Meta’s advertising product executive, will depart the business amid layoffs. This transfer is part of a months-long effort and personnel downsizing. The senior executive has been with Meta for 14 years and is presently the vice president of business messaging.

According to Reuters, Levy announced his retirement from the social media network in an internal message. After losing a child to leukaemia, the Meta veteran stated that he wanted to focus on his family. Notwithstanding Levy’s departure, Meta stated that corporate communications will continue to be a strategic priority for the company this year.

Levy formerly led Meta’s advertisements and business goods group before being replaced by John Hegeman last year. Its bigger team was in charge of Meta’s adaption to Apple Inc’s iOS privacy modifications in 2021, which restricted Meta’s access to vital user data. With varying degrees of success, the division has attempted to develop in-app commerce capabilities and to employ artificial intelligence to increase ad targeting precision.

Meta has gone through two waves of huge layoffs in the last five months. In November, the business laid off 11,000 workers in the first round. Mark Zuckerberg announced the second wave of layoffs, which would result in the loss of 10,000 additional positions. In a message to staff, the CEO declared that 2017 is Meta’s “Year of Efficiency”

A post by Madelyn Machado, a former Meta recruiter, went viral when she explained how staff, particularly in the recruiting arena, had nothing to do. Her piece was titled ‘Being paid $190,000 to do nothing at Meta’. She updated her TikTok followers on the previous few months at the firm. Meta just let off 10,000 workers in its second wave of layoffs, culminating in a total of 21,000 layoffs in a couple of months.

Despite being recruiters, Machado said that they were not authorized to employ anyone for the first six months, if not the entire first year. “We weren’t expected to hire anyone for the first six months, let alone the first year,” she explained. That really blew my head. I’m simply going to ride this out for a year,’ she says.

But, she said that she was never able to pass that threshold and truly begin hiring. Even if she avoids the second round of layoffs, Meta’s new employment freeze might last for a long time.

Machado stated that she spent most of her time at the organization training. She recognized that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta was quite rigorous in terms of training and “learning.”

Notwithstanding the employment embargo, Meta workers in the recruiting field continued to have meetings. “Why are we meeting?” Machado asked. We’re not employing anyone. Only to hear about how no one else is recruiting. Also, I was in a team where everyone was new, therefore none of us were hiring.”