IT Home (IT之家) News on May 20, Facebook parent company Meta's employees have been worried for a whole month, and the layoff day has finally arrived.

Meta currently has 78,000 employees, and about 10% of them have received layoff notices. According to an internal memo sent by Meta's HR head Janelle Gale (hand price) on Monday to the employee support group, the company issued layoff notices in three batches to employees in different regions around the world at 4 a.m. local time on May 20.

This round of layoffs is expected to cut about 8,000 positions. According to two insiders and public posts, employees in compliance and risk control, network security, and content design departments have been affected.

An internal document obtained by Business Insider shows that laid-off employees in the US region can receive severance pay, including 16 weeks (i.e., four months) of base salary, plus an additional two weeks' salary for each consecutive year of service.

The media previously reported that laid-off employees and their families can enjoy 18 months of medical insurance coverage, which is three times longer than before.

Employees leaving the company outside the U.S. will also receive similar compensation packages, with specific standards varying by country.

When Block, a financial technology company, laid off employees previously, it gave departing employees 20 weeks of salary, plus one week of salary for each year of service, along with six months of medical insurance; Amazon provided departing employees with three months of full salary and medical benefits, plus additional severance pay.

In Monday's memo, Janelle Gale also mentioned that the company will cut management positions across the board and adopt a flatter organizational structure. She wrote: "Now most business departments can adopt a leaner, flatter structure and form small specialized task forces to improve operational efficiency and reinforce employee empowerment."

An internal memo revealed that U.S. employees were notified of work-from-home arrangements on Wednesday.

In an internal meeting last month, HR director Janelle Gale admitted that the upcoming layoffs have severely damaged employee morale. The company is doing its best to handle the bad situation as optimally as possible, while also confirming a policy to extend the duration of COBRA health insurance benefits by three times.

Since Meta officially announced the upcoming layoffs on April 23, all employees have been in a state of anxiety and uncertainty. At that time, the company stated in an internal memo that the layoffs were intended to improve operational efficiency and balance business investments.

Meta also plans to reassign over 7,000 employees to new business projects related to artificial intelligence. Gale revealed to employees that departmental management will simultaneously announce organizational restructuring plans along with the layoff announcement.

Meta is currently investing heavily in the field of artificial intelligence. The company estimated in April that its capital expenditure in 2026 will reach $125 billion to $145 billion (IT Home (IT之家) note: at the current exchange rate, approximately 852.591 billion to 989.005 billion RMB).

According to earlier news, Meta management has made it clear to employees that the 10% layoff on Wednesday is not the end, and it does not rule out further workforce reductions in the future.

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