{"id":226039,"date":"2026-05-15T04:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226039"},"modified":"2026-05-15T04:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:56:17","slug":"metas-biggest-layoff-since-2023-lands-in-may-hitting-8000-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226039","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s Biggest Layoff Since 2023 Lands in May, Hitting 8,000 Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms plans to lay off about 8,000 workers, or roughly 10% of its workforce, on May 20.\u00a0 The company said the cuts are designed to improve efficiency and offset growing investments in areas such as artificial intelligence. The layoffs add to a broader trend of AI-driven job reductions sweeping the tech industry&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/beincrypto.com\/meta-layoffs-8000-jobs-2026\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms plans to lay off about 8,000 workers, or roughly 10% of its workforce,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226039-metas-biggest-layoff-since-2023-lands-in-may-hitting-8000-workers.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226039-metas-biggest-layoff-since-2023-lands-in-may-hitting-8000-workers-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226039-metas-biggest-layoff-since-2023-lands-in-may-hitting-8000-workers-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226039-metas-biggest-layoff-since-2023-lands-in-may-hitting-8000-workers-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226039-metas-biggest-layoff-since-2023-lands-in-may-hitting-8000-workers-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226039-metas-biggest-layoff-since-2023-lands-in-may-hitting-8000-workers.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226039-metas-biggest-layoff-since-2023-lands-in-may-hitting-8000-workers.jpg",1280,720,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226039-metas-biggest-layoff-since-2023-lands-in-may-hitting-8000-workers-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226039-metas-biggest-layoff-since-2023-lands-in-may-hitting-8000-workers-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226039-metas-biggest-layoff-since-2023-lands-in-may-hitting-8000-workers-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/226040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}