220 Per Cent More Code: Why Meta Stopped Replacing Staff With AI
220 Per Cent More Code: Why Meta Stopped Replacing Staff With AISeptember 29, 2026 The decision that mattered was taken in the dark, hours before anybody found out. On the evening of 19 May 2026, with the paperwork loaded and the severance calculators run, Mark Zuckerberg cancelled the second wave. The first went ahead the following morning: roughly 8,000 people, about 10 per cent of Meta's global workforce, told by email that their jobs had ceased to exist.
- ▪220 Per Cent More Code: Why Meta Stopped Replacing Staff With AISeptember 29, 2026 The decision that mattered was taken in the dark, hours before anybody found out.
- ▪On the evening of 19 May 2026, with the paperwork loaded and the severance calculators run, Mark Zuckerberg cancelled the second wave.
- ▪The first went ahead the following morning: roughly 8,000 people, about 10 per cent of Meta's global workforce, told by email that their jobs had ceased to exist.
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| Publication time | Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:21:56 +0000 |
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220 Per Cent More Code: Why Meta Stopped Replacing Staff With AISeptember 29, 2026 The decision that mattered was taken in the dark, hours before anybody found out. On the evening of 19 May 2026, with the paperwork loaded and the severance calculators run, Mark Zuckerberg cancelled the second wave. The first went ahead the following morning: roughly 8,000 people, about 10 per cent of Meta's global workforce, told by email that their jobs had ceased to exist. The second, scheduled for November, was supposed to be the big one. It was designed to reach deeper, across a broader set of roles, and one human resources executive had projected that the combined culling would match or exceed the 25 per cent Meta shed three years earlier during its self-declared year of efficiency.
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