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Social media giant Meta laid off about 8,000 workers on Wednesday among its 78,000-person headcount.<\/p>\n

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The move was first announced last month along with news that 6,000 open positions would not be filled, according to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s workers in North America were told to work from home, coinciding with the layoffs, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

In an email to the 8,000 employees let go, Meta said that \u201cwe have decided to reduce headcount as part of our continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to offset the other investments we\u2019re making,\u201d according to Business Insider.<\/p>\n

The company had 77,896 employees at the end of March, according to Reuters. Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg told employees internally Wednesday that \u201cwe do not expect other companywide layoffs this year,\u201d according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

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Some people still on the job will move into new roles, with 7,000 on AI workflow initiatives, Meta Chief People Officer Janelle Gale told employees in the memo, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

Prior to the layoffs, some Meta workers voiced concerns about artificial intelligence tracking them while they worked.<\/p>\n

One anonymous employee told The San Francisco Standard that \u201cif you\u2019re on a work machine, you are probably being surveilled. \u2026 The sort of unapologetic, \u2019we\u2019re training your replacement, and we\u2019re not paying you more for it\u2019 approach is just another signal of how little Meta cares about the humans that it employs.\u201d<\/p>\n

After being axed Wednesday, the same employee told the outlet, \u201cI did indeed get laid off. It is a huge financial bummer, but the rest of it is honestly great. I\u2019m definitely relieved.\u201d<\/p>\n

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