Overview
- Layoff emails began at 4 a.m. local time Wednesday in Singapore, with similar notifications set for other regions the same morning.
- Meta plans to eliminate about 8,000 roles and close roughly 6,000 open positions, which together equal about 10% of its workforce.
- The company will shift around 7,000 employees into new AI groups and collapse management layers into small “pods” designed to move faster.
- Meta lifted its 2026 capital spending outlook to $125–$145 billion to fund data centers, advanced chips, and AI systems across its apps.
- Employees describe empty offices, perk rushes, and deep anxiety, and a new laptop-tracking program that logs keystrokes and screenshots has drawn privacy concerns that Meta says safeguards address.