{"id":115504,"date":"2026-06-17T14:36:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/after-8000-layoffs-meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-makes-a-confession-to-employees\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T14:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:36:43","slug":"after-8000-layoffs-meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-makes-a-confession-to-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/after-8000-layoffs-meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-makes-a-confession-to-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"After 8,000 layoffs, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a &#8216;confession&#8217; to employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in an internal memo that the company &#8220;made mistakes&#8221; during its AI overhaul, after laying off 8,000 employees and reassigning 7,000 to AI teams in May. He promised no more company-wide layoffs in 2026 but refused to overpromise. With morale at record lows and capex hitting $145 billion, his fixes\u2014a July hackathon, assigned desks, bigger event budgets\u2014drew a chilly response from a workforce that&#8217;s heard enough reassurances.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in an internal memo that the company &#8220;made mistakes&#8221; during its AI overhaul, after laying off 8,000 employees and reassigning 7,000 to AI teams in May. He promised no more company-wide layoffs in 2026 but refused to overpromise. With morale at record lows and capex hitting $145 billion, his fixes\u2014a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/after-8000-layoffs-meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-makes-a-confession-to-employees\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">After 8,000 layoffs, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a &#8216;confession&#8217; to employees<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":115505,"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\/115504"}],"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=115504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}