Overview
- Meta began notifying employees on Wednesday of several hundred layoffs across Reality Labs, Facebook’s social teams, recruiting, sales, and global operations.
- Reality Labs is hit again after a January round that eliminated roughly 1,000 jobs in the division focused on VR and smart glasses.
- Outlets report totals ranging from about 700 to fewer than 1,000 roles, and Meta has not provided an official number.
- Meta calls the moves routine restructuring tied to its AI strategy, which includes 2026 capital spending guidance of $115 billion to $135 billion for data centers, custom chips, and related systems.
- Earlier reports that leadership modeled cuts of up to 20% of staff remain unconfirmed, which Meta has described as speculative.