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Meta Confirms 102 Bay Area Layoffs as It Shifts Spending to AI Wearables

State filings set a March 20 effective date for permanent cuts across the two Bay Area sites.

MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 28: Rosario Madriaga, of Las Vegas, Lydia Baloran, of Hawaii, Roger Agcanas and wife Virginia, of Stockton, from left, visit a sign featuring a new logo and the name “Meta” in front of Facebook’s headquarters on 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
Meta plans permanent layoffs affecting more than 100 workers in Menlo Park and Sunnyvale, according to new filings with California regulators.
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Overview

  • Regulatory notices list 50 layoffs spread across several Menlo Park addresses and 52 at 1180 Discovery Way in Sunnyvale.
  • Meta did not disclose which teams or roles are affected by the reductions.
  • The company frames the cuts as part of a reallocation from metaverse projects to wearables and AI, with plans to reinvest savings in wearables this year.
  • The new notices follow earlier disclosures of more than 270 California cuts in Burlingame and Playa Vista and hundreds tied to Reality Labs in Washington state.
  • The reductions occur during broader Bay Area job cuts at tech and life sciences firms, including recent filings from Amazon, Western Digital, Genentech, Google, and Pinterest.