Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s goodbye message to 8,000 fired employees also has two promises for the 70,000 who survived layoffs

Mark Zuckerberg’s email landed in 78,000 inboxes on Wednesday morning, just as the first wave of layoff notices began going out in Singapore at 4 a.m. local time. To the roughly 8,000 employees losing their jobs, the Meta chief executive offered gratitude. To everyone else—the people still logged in, still wondering whether next month brings another round—he offered something rarer at the company right now: two specific promises. No more company-wide layoffs this year. And an acknowledgement, finally, that Meta has handled the run-up to all of this badly.The cuts amount to roughly 10 percent of Meta’s workforce. Notifications rolled out in three waves at 4 AM local time across regions on May 20, starting in Asia, then Europe, then the Americas. US staff are getting 16 weeks of severance plus two weeks for every year worked, along with 18 months of COBRA health coverage. Another 7,000 employees are being reassigned to new AI projects. Around 6,000 open roles are being scrapped.