{"id":994165,"date":"2026-02-21T11:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994165"},"modified":"2026-02-21T11:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:47:16","slug":"staring-at-capital-expenditures-of-as-high-as-130-billion-mark-zuckerbergs-meta-cuts-employee-stock-awards-for-a-second-year-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/21\/staring-at-capital-expenditures-of-as-high-as-130-billion-mark-zuckerbergs-meta-cuts-employee-stock-awards-for-a-second-year-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Staring at capital expenditures of as high as $130 billion, Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta cuts employee stock awards for a second year in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has reportedly reduced the equity-based awards for most of its employees for the second consecutive year, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg channels unprecedented resources into artificial intelligence and data center expansion. According to a report by Financial Times, people familiar with the matter revealed that Meta trimmed its annual distribution of stock options by about 5% for the bulk of staff, affecting tens of thousands of employees. This is followed by a 10% cut last year, which shocked many employees inside the company. Equity refreshers a vital part of Meta\u2019s compensation package alongside base salaries and bonuses are now being scaled back as the company reallocates funds.<\/p>\n<p>AI spending spree<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has reportedly reduced the equity-based awards for most of its employees for the second consecutive year, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg channels unprecedented resources into artificial intelligence and data center expansion. According to a report by Financial Times, people familiar with the matter revealed that Meta trimmed its annual distribution of stock options by about 5% for the bulk of staff, affecting tens of thousands of employees. This is followed by a 10% cut last year, which shocked many employees inside the company. Equity refreshers a vital part of Meta\u2019s compensation package alongside base salaries and bonuses are now being [&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-994165","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\/994165","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=994165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}