{"id":2763,"date":"2026-04-23T23:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/meta-is-laying-off-10-percent-of-its-staff\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:41:07","slug":"meta-is-laying-off-10-percent-of-its-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/meta-is-laying-off-10-percent-of-its-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta is laying off 10 percent of its staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"Mark Zuckerberg presenting at Meta Connect on September 17th, 2025. | Bloomberg via Getty Images\" data-portal-copyright=\"Bloomberg via Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-2235448475.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tMark Zuckerberg presenting at Meta Connect on September 17th, 2025. | Bloomberg via Getty Images\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Meta is planning to layoff around 10 percent of employees in May, according to a memo from the company&rsquo;s chief people officer, Janelle Gale, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-04-23\/meta-tells-staff-it-will-cut-10-of-jobs-in-push-for-efficiency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published by <em>Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>. That means approximately 8,000 people will see their jobs cut. Meta will also be closing around 6,000 open roles, according to Gale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The cuts follow Meta&rsquo;s significant investments in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/869882\/mark-zuckerberg-meta-earnings-q4-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI<\/a>, including spending huge sums to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/767746\/meta-ai-superintelligence-lab-departures-scale-zuckerberg-memo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hire top talent<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/meta-breaks-ground-over-1-billion-data-center-oklahomas-tulsa-2026-04-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">build data centers<\/a>. The company forecast <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.atmeta.com\/investor-news\/press-release-details\/2026\/Meta-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2025-Results\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in January<\/a> that it will spend $115 billion to $135 billion in capital expenditures in 2026 &#8211; a significant increase from its $72.22 billion in capital expenditures for 2025. The increase is to \u00ab\u00a0support o \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/917690\/meta-is-laying-off-10-percent-of-its-staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg presenting at Meta Connect on September 17th, 2025. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Meta is planning to layoff [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}