Overview
- Meta, which will start notifying employees Wednesday, plans to eliminate about 10% of its workforce, or roughly 8,000 roles.
- Leaders will shift about 7,000 workers into new AI teams and flatten management into smaller pods to speed decisions.
- The company has closed around 6,000 open job postings, and earlier changes plus this wave will touch about 20% of staff.
- Workers report intense anxiety, with internal countdown sites and backlash over a laptop tool that logs keystrokes, clicks and screenshots to train workplace AI agents.
- Meta is redirecting strong profits into GPUs, new data centers and Llama model work, reflecting a broader industry turn that swaps headcount for AI capacity.