{"id":1003597,"date":"2026-04-18T10:47:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003597"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:16:08","slug":"meta-targets-may-20-for-first-wave-of-layoffs-additional-cuts-later-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/18\/meta-targets-may-20-for-first-wave-of-layoffs-additional-cuts-later-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta targets May 20 for first wave of layoffs; additional cuts later in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs \u200bplanned for this year on May 20, \u200bwith more coming later, three sources familiar with the plans told Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>The Facebook \u200band Instagram owner will lay off about 10% of its global workforce, or close to 8,000 employees, in that initial round, one of the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs \u200bplanned for this year on May 20, \u200bwith more coming later, three sources familiar with the plans told Reuters. The Facebook \u200band Instagram owner will lay off about 10% of its global workforce, or close to 8,000 employees, in that initial round, one of the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}