Meta starts the 10% cut, with the Singapore office getting the 4 am note first

Meta Platforms began notifying thousands of employees of layoffs on Wednesday, starting in Singapore and then in Europe and the US. The job cuts implement a previously announced 10% workforce reduction tied to an efficiency and AI restructuring. About 8,000 employees, roughly 10% of headcount, are losing their jobs, and around 6,000 open positions will not be filled. Alongside the layoffs, Meta redeployed 7,000 employees into AI-focused roles. The redeployments are directed toward AI agents, apps, and infrastructure groups, while the layoffs come from corporate functions deemed no longer needed under the new structure. The changes align with broader cost-cutting trends across financial services and other sectors.

"Meta Platforms began notifying thousands of employees on Wednesday that they are being laid off, Bloomberg reported , starting with the Asian hub in Singapore, where staff received the email at 4 am local time. European and US-based employees were notified early in their own time zones on the same day."

"The cuts implement the 10%-workforce-reduction commitment Meta first announced on 23 April as part of what chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has been framing as the company's efficiency-and-AI restructuring. Around 8,000 employees, roughly 10% of the headcount, are losing their jobs. An additional 6,000 open positions that the company had been planning to fill will be left unfilled."

"What gives the cuts their specifically operational character is the redeployment that came alongside them. Meta moved 7,000 employees into AI-focused roles on Monday , in Chief People Officer Janelle Gale's memo, before the 8,000-job cut started landing on Wednesday. The two announcements are the same restructuring viewed from opposite ends."

"The 7,000 redeployments are the headcount Meta is keeping, channelled into AI agents, apps, and infrastructure groups. The 8,000 cuts are the headcount Meta is letting go, drawn from across the corporate functions roster, the new structure says it no longer needs."

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