{"id":5746,"date":"2026-04-18T04:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=5746"},"modified":"2026-04-18T04:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:29:49","slug":"metas-biggest-layoffs-start-may-20-with-8000-job-cuts-whos-most-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=5746","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s biggest layoffs start May 20 with 8,000 job cuts: Who\u2019s most at risk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is cutting close to 8,000 employees on May 20 in the first wave of what could be its biggest round of layoffs ever\u2014surpassing even the 2022\u201323 &#8220;year of efficiency.&#8221; A second wave is planned for later in 2026, with details still being finalised. The cuts are tied to Zuckerberg&#8217;s massive AI spending push, with roles in sales, recruiting, middle management, and non-AI-adjacent functions considered most at risk.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is cutting close to 8,000 employees on May 20 in the first wave of what could be its biggest round of layoffs ever\u2014surpassing even the 2022\u201323 &#8220;year of efficiency.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=5746\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}