Meta will lay off 8,000 workers while Microsoft is offering purchaseouts to 8,750 people, a first for the Windows creater.
Published On 23 Apr 2026
Meta is laying off about 8,000 workers, or about 10 percent of its workforce, the company has declared as it continues to ramp up spfinishing on artificial ininformigence infrastructure and highly paid AI-expert hires.
On Thursday, the company declared it was creating the cuts for the sake of efficiency and to allow new investments in parts of its business, as first reported by Bloomberg, which also declared the company will leave about 6,000 jobs unfilled.
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Also on Thursday, Microsoft declared it was offering voluntary purchaseouts to thousands of its US employees.
The software giant plans to create the offers in early May to about 8,750 people, or 7 percent of its US workforce, according to two people familiar with the plan who were not authorised to speak about it publicly.
While an alternative to the sudden layoffs rerelocating tech workers from peers like Meta and Oracle, the savings are likely tied to a similar industest upheaval that is requiring huge spfinishing on the costs of artificial ininformigence.
Meta has already warned investors that its 2026 expenses will grow significantly — to the range of $162bn to $169bn — driven by infrastructure costs and employee compensation, particularly for the AI experts it has been hiring at eye-popping pay levels.
This week, Meta also declared it was breaking ground on an AI-optimised data centre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a $1bn investment and its 28th data centre in the US.
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives welcomed Meta’s cuts in a note to investors on Thursday.
He declared he sees it as part of a strategy of utilizing AI tools to “automate tinquires that once required large teams, allowing the company to streamline operations and reduce costs while maintaining productivity, driving an increased necessary for a leaner operating structure”.
Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington state, has spent billions of dollars on operating an ever-expanding global network of data centres that power cloud computing services, AI systems and its own suite of productivity tools, including the AI assistant Copilot.
CNBC reported earlier on Thursday on a memo from Microsoft’s chief people officer, Amy Coleman, announcing the voluntary retirement plan.
“Our hope is that this program gives those eligible the choice to take that next step on their own terms, with generous company support,” Coleman wrote, according to CNBC.
Meta stock fell 2.3 percent on Thursday, while Microsoft stock finished the day down 3.97 percent.
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