Meta开始最后一批大裁员 涉及部门有广告、营销…

 路透社称，Meta公司于周三开始进行最后一批大裁员，熟悉情况的消息人士称，这是该公司“三部分裁员”的最后一部分。该公司CEO扎克伯格此前曾表示，5月裁员过后，大批裁员将告一段落，随后将会有一些小裁员。

周三，一些Meta员工在LinkedIn等平台上宣布，他们已在这一轮裁员中被解雇。路透社称，本轮裁员主要涉及广告销售、营销和合作伙伴团队。此前，一名受裁员影响的员工告诉CNBC，5月的裁员还会包括财务、法律和人力资源等部门。

Meta在去年秋季裁掉1.1万多名员工后，于今年3月再次宣布裁员，从而成为第一家宣布第二轮大规模裁员的大型科技公司。两轮裁员共计裁掉2.1万名员工。

自2020年以来，该公司员工人数翻了一番，裁员又使得其员工数量减至2021年年中时的水平。

扎克伯格在3月份曾表示，公司第二轮裁员将分三部分进行，主要集中在5月份完成。他说，在那之后，可能会继续进行一些较小规模的裁员。在4月份的裁员中，约有4000名员工失业。

路透社称，Meta的本轮裁员总体而言对“非工程角色”的打击最大，这也强化了那些“在该公司编写代码的人员”的重要地位。扎克伯格在3月份曾承诺要“大幅”重组业务团队，并恢复“工程师与其他角色之间的最佳比例”。

该公司高管称，即使在专门针对技术团队的裁员中，Meta此次裁掉的位置中也有很多是内容设计和用户体验研究等非工程职位。

数月来，该公司收入增长一直在放缓。路透社称，这固然与高通胀的大环境有关，另一方面也是因为随着疫情结束，数字广告的繁荣开始出现消退。此外，Meta还向公司内一个旨在支持人工智能的项目、以及面向元宇宙的Reality Labs部门投入了数十亿元，而该部门在2022年亏损了137亿元。

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How Credit Cards Work In The U.S. | CNBC Marathon

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CNBC Marathon takes a look at how credit cards work in the U.S., including major industry players like Visa, Amex, and Discover. $6.7 trillion. That is how much Americans spent using their debit or credit cards in 2019. More than 60% of those purchases were made using cards from Visa, a company that has long dominated the payment card industry. As payment cards become more essential in our daily lives, Visa has quickly grown to become one of the most valuable companies in America. So how exactly does Visa make money and why does it dominate the payment card industry? Clarification: The 10% mentioned in the video at 12:30 refers to 10% of the average 2.2% of the swipe fee charged to merchants. And armed with impressive rewards and a loyal customer base, Amex has achieved impressive growth over the years. The company’s revenue has increased over 32% since 2017 and shares of the company have shown resilience and growth in a tumultuous market. Yet Amex is far from dominating the credit card industry compared to the likes of Visa and Mastercard. So what is the secret to Amex’s success and where is it headed next? Credit scores, which represent how likely a person is to pay his or her bills, affects almost every aspect of an American’s financial life. One key benefit built into the credit scoring system is its nondiscriminatory practice of using just numbers to determine a person’s creditworthiness. “Credit scoring when it was first developed was an advancement,” said Chi Chi Wu, staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center. “It is better than having some banker sit across from you and judge you and read the information in your credit report, because they bring a lot of their subjective analysis and their own life experience into the analysis.” But despite the good intentions of credit report companies, many experts argue that the current system is still discriminatory. Lastly, Discover is one of the largest credit card issuers in the U.S. and consistently tops a customer satisfaction survey. However, the stock has mostly underperformed that of the S&P 500 and its credit card competitors. So how does Discover stack up to its competitors and what’s unique about its business model? Watch the video to find out. Chapters: 00:00 — Introduction 00:38 — How Visa Became The Most Popular Card In The U.S. (Published October 2021) 14:42 — Why Wealthy Americans Love AmEx (Published January 2023) 27:05 — How Credit Scores Work (Published October 2022) 41:10 — How Discover Won Over The U.S. Middle Class (Published February 2020) » Subscribe to CNBC: https://cnb.cx/SubscribeCNBC » Subscribe to CNBC TV: https://cnb.cx/SubscribeCNBCtelevision

Microsoft CMO | $4.4 million worth of stock | May 18, 2023

 

Microsoft CMO tells employees the stock price is the ‘most important lever’ to get a pay raise after cashing out on $4.4 million worth of stock this month

Kylie Robison

Wed, May 17, 2023 at 3:39 PM PDT·4 min read

Microsoft's chief marketing officer Christopher Capossela, who just cashed out $4.4 million worth of stock, told employees angry about lack of salary raises that their best way to increase their pay is to make the stock go higher, according to screenshots of an internal conversation viewed by Fortune.

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"The most important lever for almost all our employees' compensation upside is the stock price," Capossela wrote in a chat with employees last week on an internal social networking tool called Yammer. "So great quarterly results contribute to making the stock attractive which in turn drives everyone's total compensation up."

Microsoft told employees earlier this month that, due to economic conditions, the company will not provide raises for full-time salaried employees. This comes after the company announced it would layoff 10,000 employees through the end of March (thought some some reports are finding Microsoft is still making cuts past its self-mandated deadline).

"Our current employee count is around 250k people which is a large increase year over year. So the painful job eliminations and the difficult decision to not increase salaries this year has the effect of slowing down a large increase in our people investments," Capossela wrote in another message to staff on Yammer on Tuesday (A Microsoft spokesperson told Fortune that the most recent disclosed headcount is actually 221,000). "We are still investing heavily in our people as well as in our data center capacity to hopefully position us well for the Al transformation."

With company morale bruised by cost cutting, internal criticism of Microsoft management is growing, particularly among employees who feel the burden is not being shouldered equally between workers and executives. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella received a 10% pay raise in 2022, raising his total compensation to $55 million.

Last week, Capossela sold $2.85 million worth of stock, adding to the $1.55 million worth of shares that he sold the week prior, MarketWatch reported. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the CMO sold a total of 5,000 shares last Tuesday at an average price of $308.705 and on Wednesday, he sold another 4,177 shares at an average price of $312.905. None of the stock sales were through pre-arranged stock trading plans, which Microsoft does not require of its executives in contrast to many other companies.

A Microsoft spokesperson said that Capossela was not available for comments, and said that Capossela's "holdings significantly exceed the holding requirements set by the Microsoft Board of Directors. This sale is part of Chris’ personal planning and does not reflect any change in his dedication to the company's success."

According to screenshots of the conversation viewed by Fortune, an employee asked leadership what the rationale was behind not providing raises for employees given that Microsoft's net income in the most recent quarter increased 9% year-over-year. Microsoft is also pouring massive amounts of money into A.I. technology and on acquisitions such as the pending $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard.

"The same principles apply to the senior leadership team and me. This will be reflected both in the absence of salary increases and in the level of annual performance-based bonuses for the SLT [senior leadership team], which will be substantially lower than last year," Capossela wrote in response to one questioner in the chat. "Of course, I'm not asking you to agree with the decision (these are tough calls being made during a very turbulent macro-economic environment), but I hope this helps explain a little of the rationale as to why."

This story was originally featured on Fortune.com

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