{"id":216827,"date":"2026-05-19T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/meta-to-move-7000-employees-to-ai-roles-amid-10-layoffs-source\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T18:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:25:12","slug":"meta-to-move-7000-employees-to-ai-roles-amid-10-layoffs-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/meta-to-move-7000-employees-to-ai-roles-amid-10-layoffs-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta to move 7,000 employees to AI roles amid 10% layoffs: Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/meta-layoffs-ai-rcna345968\">Meta to move 7,000 employees to AI roles amid 10% layoffs: Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/meta-layoffs-ai-rcna345968\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/meta-layoffs-ai-rcna345968<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 17:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nbcnews.com\">www.nbcnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meta is transitioning 7,000 employees to roles focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and is consolidating them into four new organizations as part of a broader reorganization expected to be announced.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative includes laying off approximately 8,000 employees, while not filling around 6,000 open positions, affecting various departments including Reality Labs, Facebook social teams, and sales.<\/li>\n<li>This reorganization, initially detailed in an internal memo in April, is intended to make the company more efficient and offset additional investments in AI.<\/li>\n<li>Meta has faced stock declines, down nearly 9% for the year, with analysts expressing reservations about the sustainability of its increased AI investment relative to competitors.<\/li>\n<li>The company expects to inform affected employees about the layoffs and reorganizations early Wednesday morning, with communications varying by region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta to move 7,000 employees to AI roles amid 10% layoffs: Source https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/meta-layoffs-ai-rcna345968 Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_nbcnews-fp-1200-630,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2026-05\/260519-Mark-Zuckerberg-ch-1533-c87f50.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-216827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216827"}],"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=216827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216829,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216827\/revisions\/216829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}