{"id":1005104,"date":"2026-04-27T09:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005104"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:33:23","slug":"meta-microsoft-join-tech-layoff-tsunami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/27\/meta-microsoft-join-tech-layoff-tsunami\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta, Microsoft join tech layoff tsunami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta and Microsoft are the latest software companies to announce big cuts to their global workforce. Both companies are also making big investments in artificial intelligence (AI). <\/p>\n<p>The link seems obvious. Meta\u2019s chief people officer, Janelle Gale, said the job cuts \u2013 about 10 per cent of staff or almost 8,000 workers \u2013 serve to \u201coffset the other investments we\u2019re making\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has previously spoken about a \u201cmajor AI acceleration\u201d with spending in excess of USD 115bn planned this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta and Microsoft are the latest software companies to announce big cuts to their global workforce. Both companies are also making big investments in artificial intelligence (AI). The link seems obvious. Meta\u2019s chief people officer, Janelle Gale, said the job cuts \u2013 about 10 per cent of staff or almost 8,000 workers \u2013 serve to \u201coffset the other investments we\u2019re making\u201d. Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has previously spoken about a \u201cmajor AI acceleration\u201d with spending in excess of USD 115bn planned this year.<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005104","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=1005104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005110,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005104\/revisions\/1005110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}