May 21, 2026 · 40 min · 16 segments
This week, the team discusses Meta’s recent layoffs and what they’ve been hearing from employees about the increasingly grim vibes at the company. They also talk about Musk losing his lawsuit against…
Zoe SchifferHostBrian BarrettHostAlessandra RamGuest
Leah FeigerHost
This week, the company is letting go of roughly 10% of its workforce, which is about 8,000 employees total.
It's the latest round of job cuts, adding to the roughly 25,000 jobs that have been cut in the past few years as part of Mark Zuckerberg's kind of year of efficiency that started in 2023, and now the latest AI forward workplace, which he is trying to develop and impose.
And while these latest cuts are not as big as some of the rounds of layoffs that have already happened, they're getting a ton of attention because Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO, has said that the reason they're happening, in part, at least, in large part, is because the company is spending so much money on AI and data centers.
But the reason we're able to talk so fully about this, confidently about this, is because Meta announced this a while ago.
... that this has been out in, in the open, which has resulted in, I think, a little bit of chaos time inside of Meta because you've got, like, a, a what? A 1 in 10 chance of not having your job anymore.
It's, I mean, suffice to say, impacting morale in really horrific ways, but it's not the only thing.
But I think for a lot of employees who joined Meta during this era of, like, endless perks, lots of job security, kind of like a chiller atmosphere-
This week, the company is letting go of roughly 10% of its workforce, which is about 8,000 employees total.
It's the latest round of job cuts, adding to the roughly 25,000 jobs that have been cut in the past few years as part of Mark Zuckerberg's kind of year of efficiency that started in 2023, and now the latest AI forward workplace, which he is trying to develop and impose.
And while these latest cuts are not as big as some of the rounds of layoffs that have already happened, they're getting a ton of attention because Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO, has said that the reason they're happening, in part, at least, in large part, is because the company is spending so much money on AI and data centers.
But the reason we're able to talk so fully about this, confidently about this, is because Meta announced this a while ago.
... that this has been out in, in the open, which has resulted in, I think, a little bit of chaos time inside of Meta because you've got, like, a, a what? A 1 in 10 chance of not having your job anymore.
It's, I mean, suffice to say, impacting morale in really horrific ways, but it's not the only thing.
But I think for a lot of employees who joined Meta during this era of, like, endless perks, lots of job security, kind of like a chiller atmosphere-
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