Paresh DaveLauren GoodeSteven LevyZoë Schiffer

May 14, 2026 5:00 AM

Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale

Next week, Meta is cutting about 10 percent of its staff. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen current and former employees about what it's like inside a company where "everyone is unhappy."

Photograph: Wally Skalij/Getty Images

As Meta employees brace for layoffs next Wednesday, May 20, many say the vibes are horrifically, historically low. “Everyone is unhappy; the only people who are not unhappy are, literally, executives,” says an employee who works on Instagram.

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So this is apparently a preview of every employee everywhere who will ultimately be ordered to train their robot replacements. Depressing.
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