{"id":1008514,"date":"2026-05-18T11:09:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008514"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:39:42","slug":"meta-20-may-layoff-as-doomsday-nears-anxious-employees-stock-up-on-free-snacks-chargers-apply-to-jobs-preemptively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/18\/meta-20-may-layoff-as-doomsday-nears-anxious-employees-stock-up-on-free-snacks-chargers-apply-to-jobs-preemptively\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta 20 May layoff: As \u2018doomsday\u2019 nears, anxious employees stock up on free snacks, chargers; apply to jobs preemptively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As \u2018doomsday\u2019 nears for as many as 8,000 Meta employees, 10% of the global employees of Facebook and Instagram, workers are reportedly stocking up on free snacks, drinks and chargers.<\/p>\n<p>Meta will conduct its first wave of layoffs planned for this year on 20 May, with more coming later, according to a Reuters report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As \u2018doomsday\u2019 nears for as many as 8,000 Meta employees, 10% of the global employees of Facebook and Instagram, workers are reportedly stocking up on free snacks, drinks and chargers. Meta will conduct its first wave of layoffs planned for this year on 20 May, with more coming later, according to a Reuters report.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008514","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=1008514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}