The ax started to fall in Singapore, where at 4 a.m. local time on Wednesday emails went out to workers who were being laid off. Employees in Britain, the United States and elsewhere will be notified early Wednesday morning in their respective time zones.

Meta’s offices were set to be mostly empty on Wednesday after Janelle Gale, the company’s head of human resources, told employees this week that they should work from home. On the office walls, some workers had hung up fliers sharing a petition to stop Meta’s new program to track their data for A.I. training, eight employees said. Some workers scavenged the offices for free snacks and laptop chargers on Monday in case they no longer had jobs by the end of the week, said the employees, who declined to be identified for fear of retaliation.

Recortan 8,000 personas. Mueven 7,000 a iniciativas de IA.