2022年11月10日 VOA慢速英语：Facebook 母公司 Meta 裁员 11,000 人

 

Meta, the company that owns the social media service Facebook, announced Wednesday that it will cut 11,000 jobs.
拥有社交媒体服务 Facebook 的公司 Meta 周三宣布将裁员 11,000 人。
 
Company chief Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in 2004. In a letter to employees, he took responsibility for misjudging how the economy would change after COVID-19 restrictions ended.
公司首席执行官马克扎克伯格于 2004 年创立了 Facebook。在给员工的一封信中，他对在 COVID-19 限制结束后误判经济将如何变化负责。
 
"This did not play out the way I expected," Zuckerberg wrote.
“这并没有像我预期的那样发挥作用，”扎克伯格写道。
 
He pointed to a loss of advertising and said people used their computers and mobile phones less often after the pandemic ended. He said he made the choice to hire more people because he expected the company's profits to grow.
他指出了广告的损失，并说大流行结束后人们使用电脑和手机的频率降低了。他说，他之所以选择雇用更多人，是因为他预计公司的利润会增长。
 
"I got this wrong," he wrote.
“我弄错了，”他写道。
 
The price of Meta stock shares has gone down by over 70 percent in 2022. At the same time, Zuckerberg directed the company to invest $10 billion each year to create "the metaverse." Zuckerberg believes a digital universe will soon replace smart phones as the main way people use technology.
Meta 股票的价格在 2022 年下跌了 70% 以上。与此同时，扎克伯格指示公司每年投资 100 亿美元来创建“元宇宙”。扎克伯格认为，数字世界将很快取代智能手机，成为人们使用技术的主要方式。
 
In the summer, Zuckerberg's company reported its first-ever revenue drop. It reported another drop in the autumn.
今年夏天，扎克伯格的公司报告了有史以来的首次收入下降。它报告了秋季的另一次下降。
 
A worldwide economic slowdown and a bad expectation for advertising hurt Meta and other social media companies. For example, Twitter cut 7,500 jobs last week as businessman Elon Musk took over the social media service.
全球经济放缓和对广告的不良预期伤害了 Meta 和其他社交媒体公司。例如，Twitter 上周裁员 7,500 人，因为商人埃隆·马斯克 (Elon Musk) 接管了社交媒体服务。
 
In addition, some social media companies are having trouble getting the same amount of information from their users. Last year, Apple made changes to the way its iPhones report user activity. The changes make it harder for social media companies such as Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat to send targeted advertisements to phone owners.
此外，一些社交媒体公司难以从用户那里获取相同数量的信息。去年，Apple 改变了其 iPhone 报告用户活动的方式。这些变化使 Facebook、Instagram 和 Snapchat 等社交媒体公司更难向手机用户发送有针对性的广告。
 
In addition to the job cuts, Meta said it will not hire new employees at least until the spring of 2023.
除了裁员之外，Meta 表示至少要到 2023 年春天才会雇佣新员工。
 
Zuckerberg said the company made changes to cut costs, but it was not enough. He called the choice to cut jobs a "hard decision."
扎克伯格表示，公司为削减成本做出了一些改变，但这还不够。他称选择裁员是一个“艰难的决定”。
 
Meta employees will soon find out if they have a job by email. If their job is cut, they will be able to use their company email to say goodbye to co-workers. They will receive at least 16 weeks of pay if they lose their jobs.
Meta 员工很快就会通过电子邮件了解他们是否有工作。如果他们的工作被裁员，他们将能够使用公司电子邮件与同事道别。如果他们失去工作，他们将获得至少 16 周的工资。
 
The company's stock market price rose about six percent after the news was released.
消息发布后，该公司的股票市场价格上涨了约 6%。