Meta begins laying off 8,000 employees with 4 am emails, will fire them in shifts
Ashley Paul, Published on May 20th, 2026

Meta has begun its process of firing 8,000 employees, or about one in every 10 employees, as part of its AI-focused restructuring, multiple reports said. The first employees to be hit were in Singapore, who received layoff emails at 4:00 am local time (1:30 am IST). Meta will reportedly lay off all affected employees in a single day in shifts.
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