Employees on Meta’s internal forum after company announces thousands of layoffs coming: Living through ’28 days of hell’, how do you…

Meta confirmed on Thursday it is cutting roughly 10% of its workforce—about 8,000 employees—with the axe falling on May 20. Another 6,000 open roles will simply be closed, never filled. The announcement came via an internal memo from chief people officer Janelle Gale, who acknowledged the plan had already leaked and decided to get ahead of it. The numbers are large, the date is set, but the names aren’t—and that one detail is turning the next four weeks inside the company into something employees are already calling “28 days of hell.”

Meta employees flood internal posts with dark humor, questions, and dread