Facebook’s parent Meta plans to lay off 10,000 people in an effort to become more efficient, chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a blog post to employees.

The post, circulated Tuesday, is an update on plans for a year aimed at improving efficiency at Meta. The layoffs are meant to make Meta a better technology company and improve the company’s finances.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.