Meta Layoffs

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Fremont, CA operations in May 22, 2026. Approximately 81 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Burlingame, CA operations in May 22, 2026. Approximately 338 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its San Francisco, CA operations in May 22, 2026. Approximately 252 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Playa Vista, CA operations in May 22, 2026. Approximately 74 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Menlo Park, CA operations in May 22, 2026. Approximately 2,212 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Sunnyvale, CA operations in May 22, 2026. Approximately 313 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

On May 20, 2026, Meta began a round of layoffs affecting about 8,000 employees, roughly 10% of its workforce, while moving some 7,000 staff into new AI-focused roles. In a memo, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the cuts were necessary because 'success isn't a given' in the AI era, and he framed the changes as reducing bureaucracy and concentrating talent on artificial intelligence. The company had warned in April that it would cut roles and leave about 6,000 positions unfilled to help offset AI investment. Teams working on AI infrastructure, foundation models and AI monetization were largely protected.

Reason: Concentrating talent and investment on AI while reducing bureaucracy

Source: cnbc.com

Meta laid off roughly 200 Bay Area employees in April 2026 as part of a broader restructuring tied to its heavy investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure. California state filings showed 124 jobs eliminated at a Burlingame location on Airport Boulevard, effective May 22, and 74 at a Sunnyvale site on Discovery Way, effective May 29. All positions were permanently cut. The reductions touched sales, recruiting, and the Reality Labs hardware division. "Teams across Meta regularly restructure or implement changes to ensure they're in the best position to achieve their goals," a company spokesperson said, adding that the firm would try to find other roles for some affected workers. The cuts came as Meta projected about $135 billion in capital expenditures for the year and roughly $600 billion in U.S. infrastructure spending through 2028.

Reason: Restructuring amid AI infrastructure investment

Source: sfchronicle.com

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Burlingame, CA operations in March 30, 2026. Approximately 124 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Sunnyvale, CA operations in March 30, 2026. Approximately 74 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

On March 25, 2026, Meta cut about 700 employees, roughly 1% of its workforce, in reductions spread across several divisions rather than a single team. The cuts spanned Reality Labs, Facebook's social apps, recruiting, sales and global operations, and CNBC and NBC News reported the moves were largely unrelated to one another across those groups. The reductions came as the company reshaped its organization around a major push into artificial intelligence, redirecting resources and personnel toward AI initiatives. These March cuts preceded a much larger restructuring later in 2026, when Meta began notifying roughly 8,000 employees of layoffs to fund its AI buildout, including the creation of a new superintelligence-focused division.

Reason: restructuring around AI push

Source: nytimes.com

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Menlo Park, CA operations in February 2, 2026. Approximately 39 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Menlo Park, CA operations in February 2, 2026. Approximately 6 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Menlo Park, CA operations in February 2, 2026. Approximately 2 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Menlo Park, CA operations in February 2, 2026. Approximately 1 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Sunnyvale, CA operations in February 2, 2026. Approximately 52 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Playa Vista, CA operations in January 16, 2026. Approximately 53 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Burlingame, CA operations in January 16, 2026. Approximately 219 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta cut up to 1,500 positions in its Reality Labs division in January 2026, roughly 10% of the unit's 15,000-person workforce, as it wound down its metaverse ambitions and redirected spending toward artificial intelligence. The company shuttered four internal game studios, including Armature Studio, Twisted Pixel, and Sanzaru, along with the Oculus Studios Central Technology unit. CTO Andrew Bosworth, who oversees Reality Labs, called a company-wide in-person meeting on January 14 to announce the cuts. AR hardware teams, including those working on smart glasses and controllers, were spared as Meta repositioned its hardware efforts around wearables rather than VR headsets. The cuts followed a separate round of 3,600 job losses in January 2025.

Reason: Pivot away from VR/metaverse toward AI and AR wearables

Source: nytimes.com

Meta eliminated about 600 positions from its superintelligence lab on October 22, 2025, part of an ongoing reorganization of its AI research operations. Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang told staff in a memo that reducing team size would mean "fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact." The move fit CEO Mark Zuckerberg's stated "year of efficiency" philosophy that leaner organizations perform better. Meta said most affected employees were expected to find other roles within the company, framing the action as a restructuring rather than a net headcount reduction. The cuts came just months after Meta had recruited more than 50 AI researchers from rivals through multimillion-dollar packages.

Reason: AI lab reorganization, efficiency-driven restructuring

Source: cnbc.com

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Menlo Park, CA operations in October 22, 2025. Approximately 22 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Menlo Park, CA operations in October 22, 2025. Approximately 261 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Menlo Park, CA operations in October 22, 2025. Approximately 1 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Menlo Park, CA operations in October 22, 2025. Approximately 21 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Menlo Park, CA operations in October 22, 2025. Approximately 3 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta laid off more than 100 employees across its Reality Labs division in April 2025, targeting teams within Oculus Studios and the Meta Quest fitness app Supernatural. The company said the restructuring would 'help Studios work more efficiently on future mixed reality experiences.' Spokesperson Tracy Clayton described the changes as 'shifts in structure and roles' rather than a broad program. The cuts came against a backdrop of sustained losses at Reality Labs, which burned through $17.7 billion in fiscal 2024 and had accumulated roughly $47.5 billion in losses over three years. Despite Ray-Ban smart glasses helping the division top Q4 revenue projections at $1.1 billion, Meta's CFO had previously questioned whether Reality Labs could operate with greater efficiency. No severance terms were made public.

Reason: Efficiency restructuring within Reality Labs division

Source: bloomberg.com

Meta cut approximately 3,600 employees in February 2025, about 5% of its global workforce, framing the move as a performance-based purge. CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff the company planned more aggressive culling of low performers than in previous years, saying: "We typically manage out people who aren't meeting expectations over the course of a year. But now we're going to do more extensive performance-based cuts during this cycle." The move drew skepticism after multiple affected employees reported they had received "exceeds expectations" ratings and had never been placed on performance improvement plans. The cuts came alongside a simultaneous acceleration in hiring machine-learning engineers to support AI development, following Zuckerberg's 2023 "year of efficiency" that eliminated 10,000 roles.

Reason: Performance management and workforce quality initiative

Source: finance.yahoo.com

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its SF Bay Area operations in October 16, 2024.

Source: theverge.com

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its SF Bay Area operations in March 6, 2024.

Source: businessinsider.com

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its SF Bay Area operations in October 4, 2023.

Source: reuters.com

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its New York, NY operations in May 24, 2023. Approximately 188 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its New York, NY operations in May 24, 2023. Approximately 178 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its New York, NY operations in May 24, 2023. Approximately 182 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its New York, NY operations in April 19, 2023.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its New York, NY operations in April 19, 2023. Approximately 343 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent

In March 2023, as part of what Mark Zuckerberg called Meta's 'year of efficiency,' the company announced plans to cut about 10,000 jobs and to leave roughly 5,000 open roles unfilled. Zuckerberg framed the move as flattening the organization, canceling lower-priority projects and making Meta a stronger, faster technology company while improving financial performance. The reductions were staged over several months. Recruiting cuts came first, followed by a restructuring of technical groups in late April and business groups in late May.

Reason: 'Year of efficiency': flatten the org and cancel lower-priority projects

Source: about.fb.com

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Austin, TX operations in November 16, 2022. Approximately 154 roles were eliminated.

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Austin, TX operations in November 16, 2022. Approximately 7 roles were eliminated.

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Austin, TX operations in November 16, 2022. Approximately 11 roles were eliminated.

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its Austin, TX operations in November 16, 2022. Approximately 50 roles were eliminated.

November 2022 brought the first mass layoff in Meta's history, with about 11,000 jobs cut, roughly 13% of the workforce. CEO Mark Zuckerberg took personal responsibility, saying he had wrongly assumed the pandemic-era surge in online activity would prove permanent and had over-invested in hiring as a result. The cuts hit teams across the company, and a hiring freeze was extended into the first quarter of 2023. Affected U.S. employees received 16 weeks of base pay plus two weeks for each year of service, along with continued health coverage.

Reason: Over-investment in hiring during the pandemic surge.

Source: cnbc.com

Meta disclosed a workforce reduction affecting its New York, NY operations in November 9, 2022. Approximately 871 roles were eliminated.

Reason: Layoff Permanent