AI & Jobs Meta's 4 AM Email Lands: 8,000 Out, 6,000 Open Roles Cancelled, and Janelle Gale's Memo Names Where 7,000 Survivors Are Being Reshelved — Applied AI Engineering, Agent Transformation Accelerator XFN, Central Analytics, Enterprise Solutions; Severance 16 Weeks + 2/yr + 18 Months Healthcare, Same Formula Intuit Used Two Days Ago
Meta's 8,000-role cut started at 4 a.m. May 20. CPO Janelle Gale's memo names the AI initiatives — AAI, ATA XFN, Central Analytics, Enterprise Solutions — that 7,000 survivors are being moved into. Severance: 16 weeks + 2 weeks per year + 18 months healthcare. Identical to the Intuit formula filed two days earlier.