{"id":1014347,"date":"2026-06-13T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014347"},"modified":"2026-06-13T11:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T06:00:02","slug":"as-metas-8000-layoffs-hit-middle-managers-hard-it-reminds-analysts-of-ceo-mark-zuckerbergs-words-that-he-didnt-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/13\/as-metas-8000-layoffs-hit-middle-managers-hard-it-reminds-analysts-of-ceo-mark-zuckerbergs-words-that-he-didnt-want\/","title":{"rendered":"As Meta&#8217;s 8,000 layoffs hit middle managers hard, it reminds analysts of CEO Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s words that &#8216;he didn&#8217;t want\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The receipts on Meta&#8217;s 8,000-person layoff are starting to come in, and one number keeps jumping out. Managers, especially engineering managers, took the heaviest hit when the cuts landed on May 20. Public filings from California and Washington, two states where Meta concentrates much of its US workforce, list 4,665 affected employees by job title, and more than 1,400 of them were managers. Almost half wore the specific badge of software engineering manager. That is roughly one in three of the layoffs Business Insider could verify, all stacked into a single rung of the org chart.And it has analysts dragging up a line Mark Zuckerberg dropped in January 2023, well before &#8220;AI-first&#8221; became the slogan stitched into every Meta announcement. He didn&#8217;t want, he said then, a management structure that was just &#8220;managers managing managers&#8221; piled four layers deep, overseeing the people actually doing the work. Three years later, the org chart looks like he meant it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The receipts on Meta&#8217;s 8,000-person layoff are starting to come in, and one number keeps jumping out. Managers, especially engineering managers, took the heaviest hit when the cuts landed on May 20. Public filings from California and Washington, two states where Meta concentrates much of its US workforce, list 4,665 affected employees by job title, and more than 1,400 of them were managers. Almost half wore the specific badge of software engineering manager. That is roughly one in three of the layoffs Business Insider could verify, all stacked into a single rung of the org chart.And it has analysts dragging [&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-1014347","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\/1014347","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=1014347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014348,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014347\/revisions\/1014348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}