Facebook content review company to lay off 20% staff in Barcelona

CCC Barcelona Digital Services, a company hired by Meta for the content review of its prominent social network Facebook, plans to lay off 20% of its employees, 334 people in total, due to a drop in activity.

Management met with the staff on Thursday last week, as unions told the Catalan News Agency (ACN). Now, the company will start a negotiation process of a month with employees regarding the layoff conditions.

The announcement just comes five months after the temporary layoff affecting 680 people, which already saw 100 people losing their jobs. In recent months, 150 more workers have left the company due to a worsening of the conditions when asking for sick leave.

Due to the 250 people who have already left the company, and the potential layoff of 334 more workers, unions question the future of CCC Barcelona Digital Services, which employs over 2,000 people.

The company reviews content on Facebook and Instagram written in Spanish and Portuguese. It claims financial, production, and organizational motives behind the layoff decision.