Meta Founder sent an email to 78,000 inboxes as the first wave of layoffs started to go out. Meta Chief Executive sent a gratitude message to the fired workforce. People who are currently working are thinking whether next month brings another round. He gave two promises to Meta employees: One is no more layoffs in 2026, as 10 percent of the employees are fired across Asia, Europe, and America. Another promise is that the US workforce is getting 16 weeks of severance plus two weeks for working days, along with 18 months of COBRA health coverage. 6,000 open roles are being scrapped, and 7,000 workers are assigned to new AI projects.
1500 workforce have signed a petition demanding Meta should stop tracking screen activity and mouse movements. Meta workforce is responding to layoff posts on internal forums with salad emojis. A new team led by a vice president called Applied AI and Engineering has absorbed around 2,000 workers. Also, to retain one director-level workforce, Meta dangled an additional $500,000 in equity, according to the sources.
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