Janelle Gale
Chief People Officer at Meta. Named voice on the 2026-05-20 company-wide layoff (~8,000 employees / 10% of the 78,865-person workforce) — cuts hit Reality…
Chief People Officer · Meta
Chief People Officer at Meta. Named voice on the 2026-05-20 company-wide layoff (~8,000 employees / 10% of the 78,865-person workforce) — cuts hit Reality Labs, the Facebook social division, recruiting, sales, and global operations. Severance: 16 weeks base pay + 2 weeks per year of service for US employees; international packages similar. The Wednesday cuts are positioned by Meta as the first wave of broader 2026 restructuring around AI investment. The internal note Gale circulated is the receipt of record for the *"we are firing workers to fund AI capex"* framing this cycle.
Notable quotes
- "We're doing this as part of our continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to offset the other investments we're making. This is not an easy tradeoff and it will mean letting go of people who have made meaningful contributions to Meta during their time here." — internal note, surfaced via The Next Web and TechRepublic, May 2026.
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First seen: 2026-05-18 · Last seen: 2026-05-24 · 4 mentions