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No, I'm totally fine with it. No one can guess precisely how many people need to be hired and I'd rather they overshoot than undershoot because some law stops it. This means that now some people were employed who would not otherwise be employed. That's spending by Meta that goes to people.


> No one can guess precisely how many people need to be hired

Overshooting by 600 people sounds a lot like gross failure. Is someone going to take responsibilities for it? Probably not. That person's job is safe.


I suspect Mark Zuckerberg isn't going to fire himself for getting headcount wrong by 1%.


Well I guess that nobody takes decisions at Meta besides Mark then.


They’ll get a promotion for such effective cost cutting measures.




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