Meta: number of employees 2004-2023

How many employees does Meta have?Meta Platforms had 67,317 full-time employees as of December 2023, down from 86,482 people in 2022. As of December 2023, more than 262,000 employees at tech companies worldwide were laid off throughout the year across more than one thousand companies.Facebook: how it all beganIn 2003, a sophomore at named Mark Zuckerberg hacked into protected areas of the university's computer network in order to find photos of other students. He then would pair two of them next to each other on a program called “Facemash” and ask users to choose the more attractive person. At the beginning of 2004, Zuckerberg launched “The Facebook,” a social network dedicated to Harvard students, which later grew to encompass Columbia, Yale and Stanford. The popularity of this new service sky-rocketed and in mid-2004, Zuckerberg interrupted his studies and moved his operation to Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. By 2006, Facebook was open to the general public. In 2020, the company reported almost 86 billion U.S. dollars in revenue and a net income of 29.15 billion US dollars. It is also the most popular social network in the world, with 2.7 billion monthly active users as of December 2020.Facebook employee diversity criticismLike many other tech companies, Facebook has been criticized for having a diversity problem. As of June 2020, tech positions, as well as management roles in U.S. offices were overwhelmingly occupied by men. Furthermore, almost 41 percent of Facebook employees in the U.S. are White and only 3.9 percent are African-American, which has sparked concern regarding representation and equal opportunities. Around 63.2 percent of senior level positions are occupied by White employees and only 4.3 percent by Hispanic-Americans.

Meta Platforms至2023年12月为止拥有全职员工67,317名，较2022年的86,482人有所减少。截至2023年12月，全球科技行业超过262,000名员工在全年内被超过一千家公司裁员。Facebook：一切之始2003年，一名名为马克·扎克伯格的大二学生侵入大学计算机网络的受保护区域，以寻找其他学生的照片。随后，他在名为“Facemash”的程序中将两位学生的照片并排放置，并邀请用户选择更吸引人的一位。2004年初，扎克伯格推出了“Facebook”，这是一个仅针对哈佛学生的社交网络，后来逐渐扩展至哥伦比亚大学、耶鲁大学和斯坦福大学。这一新服务的受欢迎程度激增，到2004年中旬，扎克伯格中断了他的学业，并将业务迁至硅谷腹地的加利福尼亚州帕洛阿托。到2006年，Facebook向公众开放。2020年，该公司报告营收近860亿美元，净收入为291.5亿美元。它也是全球最受欢迎的社交网络，截至2020年12月，月活跃用户数达到27亿。Facebook员工多样性批评：如同许多其他科技公司一样，Facebook因存在多样性问题而受到批评。截至2020年6月，美国办公室的技术职位以及管理职位几乎全部由男性占据。此外，美国Facebook员工中约有41%为白人，只有3.9%为非洲裔美国人，这引发了关于代表性和平等机会的担忧。大约63.2%的高级职位由白人员工担任，仅有4.3%由西班牙裔美国人担任。