Is it time for revolution yet?!
Mark Zuckerberg, in his own words, told Meta employees their devices are being tracked to train AI models.
His reasoning? Meta employees are smarter than the contract workers the rest of the industry uses for data labeling. So instead of hiring outside help, Meta is turning its own workforce into training data.
"The average intelligence of the people who are at this company is significantly higher than the average set of people that you can get to do tasks if you're working through these contractors."
He wants the AI to learn how "really smart people use computers" by watching employees work. He says the content is "stripped out" and none of it is used for surveillance or performance tracking.
Then he admitted the rollout was botched but said Meta intentionally kept employees in the dark because leaking competitive AI strategy would help rivals.
"It is not strategically in your interest for us to communicate everything in all the detail that we normally would on this."
Translation: We're watching you, we told you as little as possible, and we did it on purpose.
AI is replacing the contractor. Then the employee trains the AI. Then the AI replaces the employee.
This story and this company keeps getting weirder.
The UK nearly doubled its foreign workforce to 6.5 million since 2014.
India replaced Poland as #1. Nigeria tripled.
Youth unemployment hit 15.8%. 150,000+ marched in London.
Blue = EU immigration.
Red & Green = India, Nigeria, Pakistan.
Replacement migration at scale.
Poland joined the EU in 2004. The UK was one of only 3 countries that opened its labor market immediately.
The government estimated 13,000 Poles per year. Over 1 million came in 5 years.
After Brexit closed the EU door, India, Nigeria and Pakistan filled the gap.
Interesting data here. When looking at the housing markets declining the most since 2022, they also happen to be where mass layoffs are happening / hot spots for H-1B employees.
Austin, NorCal, Phoenix, Denver. All crashing from peak.
So are the prices going down because the H-1B's are being laid off and becoming forced sellers?
Or are Americans who moved to these locations post-covid getting laid off?
If you live in these areas, let us know what you are seeing on the ground.
Hi all I am completing my stem opt in few months and now I don’t want to do day 1 cpt and my company so not in other countries. So now what is the better option should I try and apply external jobs in Canada and get LMIA and get pr if that possible or should I just apply in India, Europe, London, Dublin or Finland?
I honestly think people are underestimating what nonstop white-collar layoffs could do to entire cities. When thousands of people suddenly stop spending, delay moving, cancel home purchases, struggle with rent, and cut back on everything, the damage doesn’t just hit workers ; it spreads to local businesses, housing markets, and whole communities too. Are we ignoring a much bigger problem here?
I was fired today by my manager, I'm 26M, 1.5 yrs exp in communication engineering (software) . I don't accept this and I was pressured by the manager to go through PIP or accept resignation. She is very toxic and tells me in the workplace. She never treated me as a person. I'm not sure about how I can get a job in this market as I was majorly into testing... I'm feeling like I quit from life. I'm worried about the job market and what if I'm unplaced forever. She demotivated me. Gave very bad feedback. I have all contradictory points and clarification but higher management was manipulated by her.
What should I do? GOD Help me... How should I get out of this phase and start applying or prepare? I'm constantly seeing layoff news and bad market conditions. I had an ill father and mother whom I should take care of.
I worked my way up to Director level as software project manager, and was making $200k salary working with clients Meta, Google, Youtube, TikTok, X. Then I was laid off and despite thousands of applications and about a dozen internal recommendations, haven't found a tech job in 2 years. During this strange transition period I've worked on a farm, at the UPS, and in landscaping. Recently I've been building with AI and might be just a week away from the 1st paying customer!
Posting this because so many people are trying to build SaaS rn, so maybe my experience can help or at provide entertainment.
No CEO memo. No press release. No WARN Act filing. Just employees showing up on Reddit saying their roles were eliminated. A lot of them.
This is exactly what @PlumbNick predicted in October 2025. Amazon announced 30,000 cuts. Backlash was massive. They walked it back to 14,000. Still too loud.
His words: "I'd A/B test the message and fine-tune the balance all the way down until Americans have nothing left."
Now in May 2026, they seem to have found the formula. Say nothing. Eliminate roles quietly. Keep each site under 100 cuts so WARN Act never triggers. No filing means no public record. No record means no headline.
Do we know 100% they are doing this? No, and that is the point. The WARN Act requires 60-day notice for mass layoffs. But if you stagger the cuts, spread them across sites, and never use the word "layoff," you never technically trigger it.
Is it legal? The law says deliberate structuring to avoid thresholds is a violation. But enforcement is through private lawsuits, and the penalty is 60 days back pay. For Amazon, that's a rounding error.
Meanwhile, they are the #1 abuser of H-1B in the entire country since 2017.
I'm a communication engineer with 1.5y exp in india. For the past 4 months my new manager is not happy with me even though I performed well with max effort. I'm the 6th guy getting fired by her in the last two years. Many in the office know this. But I can't beat politics. I have evidence to show her bad feedback. I'm thinking of speaking with the director and section manager, but it looks like they can't do anything. But Yesterday I had a 1-1 with the manager. She gave two options
Note: PIP period 6 Weeks and Notice period 6 weeks.
Accept PIP (6 WEEKS, if I do well I will continue with the same role if not then I need to serve the notice period at the end)
Resign myself after 6 weeks without any pip ( no work load and I can take WFH for these 6+6 weeks)
Suggest me what should I do? Which option to choose and by showing my bad feedback evidence can I will the higher table?
Note: no unemployment benefits in India
The CEO is writing essays on shifting to AI agents, but a quick search on LinkedIn is showing multiple open jobs in India.
Is this actually just another company using AI as an excuse in 2026?
Monitoring.
2015 - 2025. 6,932,647 applications.
73% from India = over 5M from a single country.
12 of the top 20 employers are middlemen/body shops. 6 are doing LAYOFFS. Fraud and abuse everywhere. The video breaks it down.
AMERICANS WANT OUR JOBS BACK.
We’re only eight days into May, and the numbers are already devastating. 37,977 jobs have been wiped out across 16 major companies. This isn't just a "market adjustment" or "corporate restructuring" it's nearly 38,000 families suddenly wondering how they’re going to pay mortgage, buy groceries, or keep their healthcare.
The Scale of the Loss
• Spirit Airlines is undergoing a total workforce reduction, cutting 14,000 jobs (100%).
• Kyndryl has released 10,000 employees, accounting for 13.7% of their staff.
• PayPal has cut 4,760 positions, representing 20% of their workforce.
• Bill Holdings and The Daily Wire have seen massive percentage-based hits, at 30% and 50% respectively.
No Sector is Safe
From finance and tech to travel and media, the bleeding is everywhere:
• Fintech & Banking: Commerzbank (3,000), Fidelity (800), Fifth Third Bank (740), and Coinbase (700).
• Tech & Infrastructure: Cloudflare (1,100), Verizon (500), Freshworks (500), and Upwork (145).
• Entertainment & Cybersecurity: Ticketmaster (350), Cboe (332), and Arctic Wolf (250).
Behind every one of these 37,977 entries is a person who walked into work on May 1st thinking they were secure, only to be met with a "May Recap" that includes their livelihood. As AI and automation continue to shift the landscape, the "hedge" for the working class feels thinner than ever.
How many more recap posts like this can the economy take before it completely buckles?
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Companies aren’t reinvesting savings into you and
everyone’s celebrating the AI productivity wave. Boards are thrilled. Margins are expanding. Stock buybacks are accelerating.
But let’s be honest about what’s actually happening.
When a company lays off 600 people and replaces them with AI tools, they have a choice: reinvest those savings into growth, new products, lower prices, or higher wages… or pocket it as margin expansion and call it a “strategic transformation.”
Guess which one they’re choosing.
The Numbers Don’t Lie
ZoomInfo just cut 20% of its workforce today. The stated reason? “Operational efficiency” and an “AI-first strategy.”
The real reason? Their core product, a database of business contacts, is being commoditized by AI tools that do the same thing for pennies. They’re not adopting AI. They’re running from it.
And they’re making their employees pay the exit fee.
This is the pattern: companies that built bloated cost structures during the zero-interest-rate era are now using AI as the justification — and the cover — for cuts they needed to make anyway. The AI narrative is clean. It sounds forward-thinking. It doesn’t sound like “we overhired and now the bill is due.”
The “Efficiency” Math Nobody’s Talking About
Here’s what $60M in annual labor savings actually looks like at a company like ZoomInfo:
• 600 jobs gone
• ~$60M back to the balance sheet
• Stock still down 90%+ from its 2021 peak
• Net Revenue Retention at 90% — meaning they’re losing existing customers faster than they’re replacing them
The AI pivot didn’t fix the product. It just made the bleeding cheaper. This is becoming the playbook across tech: cut humans, tout AI, guide to “margin improvement,” hope Wall Street prices in the transformation before the revenue decline becomes undeniable.
What This Means for the Labor Market
This isn’t just a ZoomInfo story. It’s the leading edge of a wave. Challenger, Gray & Christmas data shows 26% of April 2026 layoffs were explicitly attributed to AI-driven restructuring. That’s not a blip — that’s a new line item on the corporate P&L where your salary used to be.
The jobs being replaced aren’t coming back. They’re being reclassified as “operational leverage.”
And while the April jobs report headline read +115k, the household survey told a different story: 424k full-time positions lost, replaced by part-time work for people who couldn’t find anything better.
The economy isn’t creating jobs. It’s converting them — from careers into gigs, from salaries into contractor invoices, from employees into a cost center waiting to be optimized.
The Bottom Line
AI is a genuine technological shift. Nobody serious is denying that. But there’s a difference between companies using AI to build something new and companies using AI to justify something old: getting leaner at workers’ expense while margins flow upward.
Watch the NRR. Watch the full-time employment numbers. Watch whether the companies making these cuts are actually growing — or just shrinking more slowly.
Because right now, the AI efficiency boom has one clear winner… And it’s not you.
More on ZoomInfo May 11, 2026 workforce cut here:
I had 1.5 yr experience but all related to company specific, regarding pip I got the news in today's 1-1. I'm not convinced with the feedback given to me. Am the 6th person in 2 yrs to face this situation under her. Told to accept pip by next week. And after 6 weeks the notice period starts. I have asked for a meeting with a higher manager tomorrow. What should I say? As of now I thought to give clarification on the feedback (70% are incorrect). Ask for an extension as my family's health situation is not good. And I have no money in my account as of now.
Please suggest what I should say and how to face it.
The April 2026 jobs report shows a massive split between the "headline" news and the underlying data. Here’s the breakdown of why people are debating it:
• The "Two-Survey" Gap:
The "Establishment Survey" (business payrolls) reported +115k jobs, but the "Household Survey" (actual people working) showed a loss of 226k workers.
• Full-Time vs. Part-Time Shift:
A huge red flag: Full-time jobs dropped by 424k, while part-time roles for "economic reasons" (people who want full-time work but can't find it) surged by 445k. This suggests the "growth" is just people settling for lower-quality work.
• The "Birth/Death" Adjustment:
The BLS added 391k jobs via a statistical model that estimates new business startups. Critics call this a gimmick that overestimates growth during economic downturns, effectively masking real losses. When this occurs it is commonly referred to as “phantom jobs.” The BLS eventually corrects these estimates through a process called benchmarking. Once a year, they compare their survey-based estimates with near-exhaustive counts from unemployment insurance records.
These revisions happen with a significant delay. If the April 2026 report is being heavily inflated by the Birth/Death model today, the public may not see the "real" (lower) numbers until the annual benchmark revision in early 2027
• The AI Factor:
While healthcare and retail added jobs, the Information/Tech sector lost 13k. Reports (like Challenger, Gray & Christmas) suggest 26% of April’s layoffs were attributed to AI-driven restructuring, marking the start of a "labor adjustment cycle" where companies swap human staff for automation.
Bottom Line: The economy looks okay on paper (+115k), but the "quality" of the labor market is deteriorating, with full-time careers being replaced by part-time gigs and AI-driven automation. This ultimately will not be sustainable for long term economic growth.
2 weeks ago, I had 1-1 with my manager and she gave negative feedback and sent the same in the mail in which more than 70% is not my fault. I mentioned a few points but she didn't consider those. Now she scheduled a meeting (in 2 days). I Spoke to a few people who got fired by her. They said she will send the feedback through mail and fired/PIP them. I might become the 6th person in team to be in this situation in 1.5 yrs. Now how should I face this situation? I'm thinking of replying to the feedback mail. Apart from that what should I do? The manager and HR are of the same mindset.
Fine, I will apply to other companies. Other than this suggests what to do and how to face this situation?
On May 7, 2026, Cloudflare co-founders Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn announced on the official Cloudflare blog that the company was reducing its workforce by more than 1,100 employees globally. The cuts represent roughly one in five Cloudflare employees, taking the company from a reported 5,156 headcount down to approximately 4,000. It is the largest reduction in Cloudflare's history.
The announcement was framed not as a financial response but as a deliberate operating-model change. The post is titled "Building for the Future," and the leadership message centers on what the founders call an "agentic AI-first operating model." The reduction is intended to be substantially complete by the end of Q3 2026.
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