The Bad PlaceTimes of India | Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's goodbye message to 8,000 fired employees also has two promises for the 70,000 who survived layoffs
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Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, emailed roughly 78 000 employees on May 20 to announce the company’s latest round of layoffs, which will affect about 8 000 staff (≈10 % of the workforce) and eliminate around 6 000 open positions. In the memo he thanked those departing, promised that there will be no further company‑wide layoffs this year, and admitted that Meta’s internal communication had been poor and must improve. Affected U.S. workers will receive 16 weeks of severance plus two weeks per year of service and 18 months of COBRA health coverage, while 7 000 employees are being reassigned to new AI projects as Meta ramps up a $125‑$145 billion AI spend. The cuts have left morale low, with employees filing petitions against invasive monitoring for AI training, posting “salad” emojis as a covert salute, and creating internal “draft” teams that absorb about 2 000 staff under the new Applied AI and Engineering unit. Zuckerberg closed the note by emphasizing AI’s importance and the uncertainty ahead, while the promises of stability and better communication aim to reassure the remaining 70 000 workers.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's goodbye message to 8,000 fired employees also has two promises for the 70,000 who survived layoffs
Mark Zuckerberg's email landed in 78,000 inboxes on Wednesday morning, just as the first wave of layoff notices began going out in Singapore at 4 a.m. local time.
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