Meta Planning Huge Layoffs? Up To 16,000 Jobs At Risk Amid AI Push
#Layoffs
#Meta is reportedly considering #layoffs affecting 20% of its workforce to offset spending on #AIinfrastructure and #AIacquisitions. This comes amid a trend of tech companies announcing layoffs, with some suggesting these cuts are “#AIwashing” to mask other issues. Meta employed nearly 79,000 people as of December 31, according to a recent filing. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/14/meta-reportedly-considering-layoffs-that-could-affect-20-of-the-company/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
#ElonMusk Orders Sweeping #Layoffs as #xAI Fails to Catch Up https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-orders-layoffs-xai-coding
🎉 Oh no, the #robots are #taking our jobs! 😱 45,000 #tech workers bid farewell in March, with #AI snatching 9,200 gigs. But don't worry, there are plenty of conferences to remind you of how innovative and unemployable you are! 🦾📉
https://technode.global/2026/03/09/2026-tech-layoffs-reach-45000-in-march-more-than-9200-due-to-ai-and-automation-rationalfx/ #jobs #layoffs #innovation #unemployment #HackerNews #ngated
Most brutal layoff since the last brutal layoff
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/13/meta-layoffs-ai
Between the MetaVerse not panning out on top of buying more AI companies that don't need to exist, the writing has been on the wall.
Meta is reportedly planning to cut up to 20 percent of its staff in upcoming layoffs
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메타의 해고 소식은 전체 채용 현황과 함께 봐야 하며, 최근 몇 년간 많은 인력을 채용한 점을 고려할 때 이번 해고는 AI 효율성과 연계되어 해석되고 있다는 분석(출처: The Information).
Exclusive: Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount
If Meta settles on the 20% figure, the layoffs will be the company's most significant since a restructuring in late 2022 and early 2023 that it dubbed the "year of efficiency." It employed nearly 79,000 people as of December 31.
#Meta #Facebook #AI #layoffs #socialmedia #dystopia #technology #WhatsApp #Instagram
Meta is considering cutting up to 20% of its workforce. The move is aimed at streamlining operations for AI expansion. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/technology/meta-considers-layoffs-20-pc-ai-investment-workforce-cut-report-da5ndnl1?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Meta #Layoffs #MassLayoffs #LatestNews
Meta might lay off 20% of its workforce to invest more in AI.
I'm anyway very confused about their strategy. I know it’s Mastodon here, but I haven’t heard anyone talking at all about their AI stuff. I only know that you can do ads with it now.
#layoffs
Digg restructures company, lays off staff, and discontinues app amid bot challenges
📰 Original title: Digg lays off staff and shuts down app as company retools
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅
View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/digg-restructures-company-lays-off-staff-and-discontinues-app-amid-bot-challenges/?redirpost=dc771c43-f451-4033-9fa2-3993c423c126
Peel district educators call potential cuts a 'manufactured crisis' in underfunded school system
Unions who represent thousands of education workers in the Peel District School Board are denouncing the province's plans for possible cuts in the fall, with 331 teachers at the board receiving layoff notices in recent weeks.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/pdsb-layoff-notices-9.7127529?cmp=rss
David Ellison Pinky Swears CNN Will Retain Editorial Independence, Points To CBS
'Overwatch has to make [redacted] in 2020, and then every year after that it needs a recurring revenue of [redacted]' and then he says to me 'if it doesn't do [redacted] we're going to lay off 1,000 people, and that's going to be on you.'
Atlassian to shed ten percent of staff, because AI
image via theregister.com#ai #atlasian #layoffs #softwareAustralian collaborationware company Atlassian has announced it will shed ten percent of staff – around 1,600 people. “It would be disingenuous to pretend AI doesn’t change the mix of skills we need or the number of roles required in certain areas. It does,” wrote CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes. “This is primarily about adaptation. We are reshaping our skill mix and changing how we work to build for the future.”
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/11/atlassian_layoffs/?td=rt-3a
🫧 Atlassian to cut roughly 10% jobs in pivot to AI
｢ The company said the majority of impacted employees are in North America, amounting to 40%, followed by 30% in Australia and 16% in India. It expects to incur about $225 million to $236 million in charges related to the layoffs and office space reductions ｣
https://www.reuters.com/technology/atlassian-lay-off-about-1600-people-pivot-ai-2026-03-11/
Jack Dorsey's Block Accused of 'AI-Washing' to Excuse Laying Off Nearly Half Its Workforce - Slashdot
｢ Block more than tripled its employee base between 2019 and 2022, growing from 3,835 to 12,430 workers. The company's stock had fallen 40% since early 2025, creating pressure to cut costs. "This is more about the business being bloated for so long than it is about AI," ｣
Some employees laid off at Acadia University as school grapples with fiscal challenges
The Wolfville, N.S., university has not yet stated publicly how many or which positions were affected.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/some-employees-laid-off-at-acadia-university-as-school-grapples-with-fiscal-challenges-9.7125609?cmp=rss
🤖 #Atlassian CEO: "AI isn't replacing anyone, but don't worry, you're still fired!" Delight in the #corporate #doublespeak where embracing #AI means embracing #layoffs. It's not AI taking your job, it's just good old-fashioned capitalism! 💼🙃
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Atlassian-CEO-AI-doesn-t-replace-people-here-but-we-re-firing-them-anyway-11208758.html #CEO #capitalism #HackerNews #ngated
Atlassian CEO: AI doesn't replace people here, but we're firing them anyway
#HackerNews #Atlassian #AI #layoffs #technology #employment #news
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