Overview
- Meta began notifying affected employees in time‑zoneed waves, with Singapore workers receiving emails as early as 4 a.m. local time on May 20.
- About 8,000 roles, roughly 10% of the workforce, were eliminated while Meta cancelled around 6,000 open positions and reassigned about 7,000 remaining staff into newly formed AI teams.
- U.S. workers who were cut will receive at least 16 weeks of base pay plus two additional weeks per year of service and 18 months of health coverage, and the company has offered other support such as immigration help.
- An internal program to collect granular device activity for AI training has drawn more than 1,000 employee signatures on a petition and raised privacy and regulatory concerns in Europe.
- Leadership frames the move as a shift to flatter, pod‑style teams and cites 2026 capital spending of roughly $125–$145 billion to build data centers, chips and model infrastructure, a plan that has unsettled staff and investors.