Overview
- Meta, which three sources told Reuters on Friday intended to act May 20, plans an initial cut of about 8,000 employees worldwide.
- The company has not confirmed the plan, and executives are weighing further rounds in the second half of 2026 with details unsettled and contingent on AI progress.
- Recent reshuffling moved engineers into a new Applied AI group, reorganized parts of Reality Labs, and could shift some workers into a newly created Meta Small Business unit.
- Meta reported nearly 79,000 employees at year-end, and its 2022–23 “year of efficiency” eliminated about 21,000 jobs.
- Industry trackers count more than 73,000 tech layoffs so far this year as large firms redirect spending to AI and trim management layers.