{"id":85107,"date":"2026-05-24T14:20:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T14:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/85107\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T14:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T14:20:32","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-says-he-feels-weight-of-meta-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/85107\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg says he feels ‘weight’ of Meta layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta began laying off roughly 8,000 employees Wednesday — about 10 percent of its global workforce — as co-founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> pushes to redirect resources toward an ambitious artificial intelligence agenda.<\/p>\n

According to Bloomberg, notifications went out beginning in the early morning hours, with Singapore-based workers among the first to be informed.<\/p>\n

In addition to the cuts, Meta said in April it would cancel plans to hire 6,000 people and shift 7,000 other employees into AI workflow-related roles.<\/p>\n

In a memo to staff Wednesday, posted by Business Insider, Zuckerberg expressed thanks to departing employees and sought to reassure those remaining.<\/p>\n

“It’s always sad to say good-bye to people who have contributed to our mission and to building this company,” he wrote. “I feel the weight of that.”<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg said he did not expect additional company-wide layoffs<\/a> this year, and acknowledged the company had fallen short in its communications with staff.<\/p>\n

He struck an optimistic tone about the company’s direction, saying Meta was “one of the few companies positioned to help define the future” and reaffirming his goal of delivering “personal superintelligence<\/a>” to users worldwide.<\/p>\n

The restructuring is the largest company-wide round of cuts since Zuckerberg’s 2022-2023 “Year of Efficiency” campaign, which eliminated roughly 21,000 positions.<\/p>\n

The move comes as Meta dramatically ramps up spending on AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Meta has forecasted capital expenditures to reach between $125 billion and $145 billion for the year — more than double the company’s 2025 outlay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta began laying off roughly 8,000 employees Wednesday — about 10 percent of its global workforce — as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[154],"tags":[1844,17636,44716,46867,618,46866,1995,7648,7646,46868],"class_list":["post-85107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-zuckerberg","tag-ai-workforce","tag-artificial-intelligence-investment","tag-company-wide-layoffs","tag-employee-notifications","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-meta-capital-expenditures","tag-meta-layoffs","tag-meta-restructuring","tag-meta-workforce-reduction","tag-personal-superintelligence"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116629996973332364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}