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New Delhi: A bad news has come to light from the employees of Meta, one of the leading tech companies in the country and abroad. Let us tell you, Meta has sent resignation mail to many employees working in the company at 4 am on May 20. According to the information, a report came out a few days ago, in which it has been claimed that Meta may lay off employees on a large scale on May 20, 2026. Now this claim seems to be true.

8 thousand employees were shown the way out

According to the information revealed, Meta has started the layoff from a company based in Singapore. Where employees have been sent a letter of termination at 4 in the morning. According to Bloomberg report, Meta is preparing to show the way out to about 10 percent of its global workforce i.e. about 8 thousand employees. Along with this, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to invest billions of dollars in Artificial Intelligence this year, under which this layoff is being done. Talking about total employees, Meta employs 78 employees globally.

Preparation to form AI team

While giving a memorandum plan, Meta’s Chief People Officer Janella Galle has said that along with firing the employees, they are also going to put 7 thousand employees in the new AI team, in which small teams will be created. Let us tell you, this decision of Meta has been taken to make new innovations at the AI ​​level. Regarding this, the CEO has said that he is planning to invest around $125 billion to $145 billion in AI.

In which companies were the layoffs done?

Let us tell you that before Meta, Cisco company had also laid off about 4 thousand people by laying off its employees. Along with this, big companies like Microsoft and Amazon have also shared information regarding layoffs. Now you must have seen how effective Meta’s AI investment of billions of dollars proves to be.