{"id":108922,"date":"2026-05-11T10:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/meta-to-lay-off-8000-employees-this-month-ceo-mark-zuckerbergs-clear-message-for-staff\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:37:07","slug":"meta-to-lay-off-8000-employees-this-month-ceo-mark-zuckerbergs-clear-message-for-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/meta-to-lay-off-8000-employees-this-month-ceo-mark-zuckerbergs-clear-message-for-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta to lay off 8,000 employees this month, CEO Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s clear message for staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs on May 20 as CEO Mark Zuckerberg rebuilds the company around small, AI-powered teams. With capex hitting a record $125\u2013145 billion this year, CFO Susan Li admitted there&#8217;s no clean answer for what Meta&#8217;s ideal headcount even looks like anymore. The company wants builders who can ship alone what teams once built together\u2014and is letting everyone else go.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs on May 20 as CEO Mark Zuckerberg rebuilds the company around small, AI-powered teams. With capex hitting a record $125\u2013145 billion this year, CFO Susan Li admitted there&#8217;s no clean answer for what Meta&#8217;s ideal headcount even looks like anymore. The company wants builders who can ship alone what teams&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/meta-to-lay-off-8000-employees-this-month-ceo-mark-zuckerbergs-clear-message-for-staff\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta to lay off 8,000 employees this month, CEO Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s clear message for staff<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":108923,"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\/108922"}],"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=108922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}