{"id":1008220,"date":"2026-05-16T11:37:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008220"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:07:03","slug":"as-may-20-set-date-for-meta-layoffs-nears-employees-claim-horrifically-and-historically-low-morale-everyone-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/16\/as-may-20-set-date-for-meta-layoffs-nears-employees-claim-horrifically-and-historically-low-morale-everyone-is\/","title":{"rendered":"As May 20, set date for Meta layoffs, nears employees claim: Horrifically and historically low morale, everyone is &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside the headquarters of the world\u2019s largest social media company, the \u201cYear of Efficiency\u201d has reportedly turned into a year of dread. As the set date of Wednesday, May 20, approaches, Meta is prepared to let go roughly 8,000 pink employees, slashing about 10% of its global workforce. Despite the company reporting record-shattering profits, including $26.8 billion in net income for the first quarter of 2026, the staff morale has reached \u2018horrifically and historically low\u2019 levels.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Wired, the tension within Meta (the parent company of Facebook and Instagram) stems from a contrast: while the company is making more money than ever, it is choosing to divert those funds away from human staff and toward artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside the headquarters of the world\u2019s largest social media company, the \u201cYear of Efficiency\u201d has reportedly turned into a year of dread. As the set date of Wednesday, May 20, approaches, Meta is prepared to let go roughly 8,000 pink employees, slashing about 10% of its global workforce. Despite the company reporting record-shattering profits, including $26.8 billion in net income for the first quarter of 2026, the staff morale has reached \u2018horrifically and historically low\u2019 levels. According to a report by Wired, the tension within Meta (the parent company of Facebook and Instagram) stems from a contrast: while the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008220","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008221,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008220\/revisions\/1008221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}