{"id":1014124,"date":"2026-06-12T11:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014124"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:24:16","slug":"meta-layoffs-more-than-half-of-the-8000-job-cuts-are-in-two-us-states-and-these-roles-took-the-biggest-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/12\/meta-layoffs-more-than-half-of-the-8000-job-cuts-are-in-two-us-states-and-these-roles-took-the-biggest-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta layoffs: More than half of the 8,000 job cuts are in two US states, and these roles took the biggest hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook-parent company Meta is pouring billions of dollars into its artificial intelligence (AI) project, and the company\u2019s \u2018new\u2019 priorities have triggered a massive wave of layoffs. According to a report, more than half of these job cuts have targeted two of biggest US states and Silicon Valley\u2019s most traditional roles: software developers and middle managers.Citing public regulatory filings, Business Insider reports that more than half of Meta&#8217;s recent 8,000 job cuts \u2013 4,665 workers \u2013 were concentrated in just two US states: California, where the company is headquartered, and Washington, home to one of its largest offices near Seattle. The data reveals a new reality for roles that have long been considered the untouchable backbone of the technology industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook-parent company Meta is pouring billions of dollars into its artificial intelligence (AI) project, and the company\u2019s \u2018new\u2019 priorities have triggered a massive wave of layoffs. According to a report, more than half of these job cuts have targeted two of biggest US states and Silicon Valley\u2019s most traditional roles: software developers and middle managers.Citing public regulatory filings, Business Insider reports that more than half of Meta&#8217;s recent 8,000 job cuts \u2013 4,665 workers \u2013 were concentrated in just two US states: California, where the company is headquartered, and Washington, home to one of its largest offices near Seattle. The [&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-1014124","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\/1014124","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=1014124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014125,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014124\/revisions\/1014125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}