Throughout Meta’s fourth-quarter earnings name with buyers right this moment, CEO Mark Zuckerberg defined why he desires to make this the “yr of effectivity.”

“I simply suppose we’ve entered considerably of a section change for the corporate,” he stated, noting that headcount steadily climbed for almost 20 years, making it “very exhausting to essentially crank on effectivity when you’re rising that shortly.” Now, after shedding roughly 11,000 staff and placing a pause on most hiring, he’s centered on “rising the effectivity of how we make selections.”

Virtually, Zuckerberg stated this implies “flattening our org construction and eradicating some layers of center administration to make selections quicker.” As I reported in final week’s version of my e-newsletter Command Line, he…

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