{"id":106008,"date":"2026-04-26T08:35:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/28-days-of-hell-meta-employees-brace-for-layoffs-as-8000-jobs-get-cut-on-may-20\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:35:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:35:50","slug":"28-days-of-hell-meta-employees-brace-for-layoffs-as-8000-jobs-get-cut-on-may-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/28-days-of-hell-meta-employees-brace-for-layoffs-as-8000-jobs-get-cut-on-may-20\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8217;28 days of hell&#8217;: Meta employees brace for layoffs as 8,000 jobs get cut on May 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is cutting roughly 8,000 employees\u201410% of its workforce\u2014on May 20, with another 6,000 open roles being closed. The announcement, made via an internal memo from chief people officer Janelle Gale, has sent workers into a monthlong limbo. Employees are flooding internal forums and the anonymous app Blind with anxiety, dark humor, and resignation. The layoffs are tied to Meta&#8217;s aggressive AI spending, projected at up to $135 billion this year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is cutting roughly 8,000 employees\u201410% of its workforce\u2014on May 20, with another 6,000 open roles being closed. The announcement, made via an internal memo from chief people officer Janelle Gale, has sent workers into a monthlong limbo. Employees are flooding internal forums and the anonymous app Blind with anxiety, dark humor, and resignation. The&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/28-days-of-hell-meta-employees-brace-for-layoffs-as-8000-jobs-get-cut-on-may-20\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8217;28 days of hell&#8217;: Meta employees brace for layoffs as 8,000 jobs get cut on May 20<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":106009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}