Meta Restructures Workforce, Cutting Over 2,200 Roles at Menlo Park HQ as it Shifts Toward AI Priorities

Meta laid off 2,212 employees at its Menlo Park headquarters and 213 at its Sunnyvale office, according to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filings released on Thursday. The filings also recorded earlier cuts of more than 300 workers in Burlingame, 252 in San Francisco, and 81 in Fremont, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Meta announced in April that it planned to reduce its workforce by 10 percent in May.

” “AI is the most consequential technology of our lifetimes,” Zuckerberg said in the memo, which was first reported by The New York Times. ” Workers most affected were software engineers on teams building business-facing AI products integrated across the company’s social media platforms, SFGATE reported.

Affected employees will receive 16 weeks of base pay plus an additional two weeks for every year of employment.

“The changes we are implementing vary by team and include layoffs, open role closures, and moving thousands of employees to business critical priorities across the company,” Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton said in an email. Meta owns Facebook and Instagram. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act requires employers to provide advance notice of mass layoffs.

More than 140,000 tech jobs have been cut so far this year, with AI at the center of many restructuring efforts. Intuit, Cisco, and LinkedIn are also making significant workforce changes. Earlier this week, Webflow said many of its staff will lose their jobs.