Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees in an internal memo on Wednesday that he does not expect more company-wide layoffs this year, reports news agency Reuters. The tech billionaire's remarks came after the company announced a new round of global cuts with about 10% of its workforce being affected in the first major wave. At the same time, the company said that around 7,000 employees would be moved to new AI-focused initiatives."I want to be clear that we do not expect other company-wide layoffs this year. I also want to ⁠acknowledge that ‌we haven't been as clear as we aspire to be in our communication, and that's ⁠one area I want to make sure we improve," he said in the memo.But ex-employees of the company, who were laid off recently, warned of more layoffs in the future. There were reports that Meta is planning another round of layoffs in August this year.ALSO READ: Meta employee laid off after 10 years shares heartbreaking postEx Meta employee warns of more layoffsA former Meta employee has claimed that more layoffs could hit the company in the coming months, even after CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly suggested that the latest round of job cuts was the last major one for the year.Brittany Pierson, a Dallas-based content designer who worked at Meta for more than four years, said she surprisingly felt “relieved” after losing her job. According to her, she had already been expecting her role to eventually disappear as artificial intelligence continues to reshape the tech industry.ALSO READ: Meta told employees to work from home, then sent 4 am layoff emails to US staffPierson said she had been mentally preparing for the possibility of layoffs for a long time, especially as AI tools increasingly began handling work once done by human content designers. “If you survive, then you need to start training yourself on an entirely new role that AI can’t replace — all while mentally preparing yourself for the next layoff, which, by the way, is rumored to be happening in August,” Pierson said on Instagram. “That’s not normal. It’s not healthy,” she added in the two-minute video.“I want to be clear that we do not expect other company-wide layoffs this year,” Zuckerberg said, according to Reuters.“I also want to acknowledge that we haven’t been as clear as we aspire to be in our communication, and that’s one area I want to make sure we improve.”'He's focussed on bottom line'A Meta employee affected by Wednesday’s layoffs told New York the company will likely do a “performance-based” round of layoffs later this year, “so they can label it as not a mass layoff.” Asked about Mark Zuckerberg’s reputation internally, the worker didn’t mince words.“He doesn’t give a s–t,” the person said. “He’s focused on his bottom line.”The employee said morale inside Meta has cratered amid fears of AI wiping out jobs across the tech industry.“I don’t think it has the security or longevity that it used to,” the employee said. “I think people are going to be making big career pivots right now to just escape tech.”“In the past, if you got laid off from Meta, you could go and jump to another company like Google, Amazon or these other big tech companies,” the worker added.“But now with this layoff, knowing that it is because of AI, you can jump to one of those other companies, but you could also end up being laid off there six months later.”The employee also described mounting internal pressure to incorporate Meta’s in-house AI tools into day-to-day work — even when it meant replacing tasks that workers felt capable of doing themselves.“We were monitoring our AI usage,” the employee said.