Zuckerberg's Great Betrayal: The Man Who Promised Remote Work Forever Just Fired 8,000 People On the Same Day Meta Made $56 Billion
Mark Zuckerberg once declared Meta would be "the most forward-leaning company on remote work at our scale." On May 20, 2026, he handed pink slips to 8,000 employees roughly 10% of the global workforce the same week the company reported its most profitable quarter in history. Between the broken promise of remote work, the $145 billion AI bet that is eating the workforce alive, and a compensation system that rewards a handful of AI researchers while cutting everyone else's pay, this is the full story of how Zuckerberg remade Meta in his own image and who paid the price.
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