The affected individuals are employees of the US-based company Accenture, which provides contract workers to Facebook.

A group of about 60 contractors who work with Facebook learned during a video conference this week that they were laid off after an algorithm "randomly" picked them.

The affected individuals are employees of the US-based company Accenture, which provides contract workers to Facebook. 

Accenture has a $500 million-a-year contract with the social media giant. 

The firm recently told some of its employees that their work for the social network was "going to be discontinued soon," Business Insider reported.

According to Business Insider, 

the 60 people were told they had been chosen for the layoff “randomly” through an algorithm, without giving any specific reason

, after a worker asked how the decision was made.

In addition, they noted that they could "apply again" for any new position available for the next two weeks, but that their current job would end on September 2.

Likewise, they were promised to pay until October 3.

The contributors, who work part-time for the tech giant and provide content moderation support and business integrity services to Facebook, were notified of their termination Tuesday by anonymous representatives of the contracting company. 

Meta CEO

Mark Zuckerberg warned last month that the company was facing a tough time

, planning to not only lower its hiring target, but would "step up" performance management to weed employees out of business.

low performance.

The company experienced a historic 1% drop in earnings during the second quarter of 2022, compared to the same period in 2021.

"Realistically, there's probably a group of people in the company that shouldn't be here," Zuckerberg said.

“Part of my hope, by raising expectations and having more aggressive goals and just turning up the heat a little bit, is that I think some of you might decide that this place is not for you and this self-selection is fine with me,” he stressed. .

(With information from RT in Spanish)