Meta Platforms began cutting roughly 8,000 jobs on Wednesday, with employees in Singapore receiving termination emails at the odd hour of 4 a.m. local time, while the rest of the company's global workforce had been told to work from home ahead of their own notifications, Bloomberg News reported.
The layoffs affect about 10% of Meta's workforce, which stood at just under 78,000 at the end of March. Staff in the United Kingdom, the United States, and other regions were expected to receive word early in the morning in their respective time zones, with engineering and product teams bearing the brunt.
