{"id":215740,"date":"2026-05-18T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/meta-workers-fear-further-job-cuts-as-layoffs-begin\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:25:21","slug":"meta-workers-fear-further-job-cuts-as-layoffs-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/meta-workers-fear-further-job-cuts-as-layoffs-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Workers Fear Further Job Cuts as Layoffs Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/meta\/2026\/meta-workers-fear-further-job-cuts-as-layoffs-begin\/\">Meta Workers Fear Further Job Cuts as Layoffs Begin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/meta\/2026\/meta-workers-fear-further-job-cuts-as-layoffs-begin\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/meta\/2026\/meta-workers-fear-further-job-cuts-as-layoffs-begin\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 11:27:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meta plans to lay off around 8,000 employees, with additional rounds expected including further cuts in August.<\/li>\n<li>These layoffs follow significant previous cuts, notably in Meta\u2019s Reality Labs division and other areas, causing an &#8220;emerging sense of dread&#8221; among staff.<\/li>\n<li>Concurrently, Meta has ramped up AI spending, raising its 2026 capital expenditure guidance by up to $10 billion to potentially $145 billion.<\/li>\n<li>The layoffs are justified by Meta as a strategic move to enhance efficiency and offset the increased spending on AI.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike 2022 layoffs which were accompanied by an apologetic tone, this round is characterized by a more \u201cdramatically\u201d firm stance.<\/li>\n<li>This wave of layoffs adds to a larger trend in tech, with nearly 110,000 job cuts so far this year exceeding cuts from all of 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Meta\u2019s AI developments, such as its personal AI agent Hatch, are seen to have the edge over competitors partly due to owning the infrastructure these technologies operate on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Workers Fear Further Job Cuts as Layoffs Begin https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/meta\/2026\/meta-workers-fear-further-job-cuts-as-layoffs-begin\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-18 11:27:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Meta-layoffs-x1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215742,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215740\/revisions\/215742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}