Meta has reportedly started cutting 8,000 staff globally, beginning with workers in Singapore, with affected workers in the US and Europe to follow.
Approximately 49,000 workers were laid off in 2026 as companies adopted a more AI-reliant business model. Meta has reportedly begun cutting staff in Singapore as the company executes a plan to reduce employee numbers by 8,000 to lean more heavily on AI.
Emails were sent out at 4 a.m. Singapore time to affected employees, and staff in the US and Europe were also expected to be notified that morning, Bloombergon Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Meta’s engineering and product teams are expected to be hit hardest. A memo from Meta’s head of people, Janelle Gale, seen by Bloomberg, said Meta’s “flatter structure” and “smaller teams” would enable the company to move faster than before.
Hong Kong’s Boyaa Interactive eyes $70M crypto treasury expansion Earlier this month, employees at Meta widely criticized a company initiative to collect data from their devices, such as keystrokes, mouse movements and screen content, for the company to train its AI models. Meta’s aggressive spending on AI infrastructure has also caused investor concern that it won’t pay off.
The Mark Zuckerberg-led company has already poured more than $100 billion into AI, and it also plans to build the world’s biggest AI facility in the US state of Louisiana, potentially valued at $200 billion. The amount is more than the $80 billion that Meta poured into the metaverse before shifting its vision to mobile as it shut down the VR version ofEditorial Policy
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