{"id":985470,"date":"2026-01-14T12:28:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985470"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:45:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:15:37","slug":"meta-layoffs-2026-reality-labs-cuts-over-1000-jobs-signals-strategy-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/14\/meta-layoffs-2026-reality-labs-cuts-over-1000-jobs-signals-strategy-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta layoffs 2026: Reality Labs cuts over 1,000 jobs, signals strategy shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Meta\u2019s first biggest layoff of 2026, more than 1000 employees at the company\u2019s Reality Labs division were laid off, reported Bloomberg. The mass layoff reportedly came after the company decided to shift its focus from Metaverse to AI devices.<\/p>\n<p>Employees affected by the mass layoff were notified starting Tuesday morning, reported the outlet, citing an internal post by Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Meta\u2019s first biggest layoff of 2026, more than 1000 employees at the company\u2019s Reality Labs division were laid off, reported Bloomberg. The mass layoff reportedly came after the company decided to shift its focus from Metaverse to AI devices. Employees affected by the mass layoff were notified starting Tuesday morning, reported the outlet, citing an internal post by Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth.<\/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":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985470","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=985470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}