Meta is still trimming its workforce.
The tech company co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg will lay off nearly 200 of its Silicon Valley workers. This will lead to 124 jobs in Burlingame and 74 in Sunnyvale being eliminated, according to filings with the Employment Development Department in California, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The layoffs are set for May.
“Teams across Meta regularly restructure or implement changes to ensure they’re in the best position to achieve their goals,” a company spokesperson said in a statement, according to the outlet. “Where possible, we are finding other opportunities for employees whose positions may be impacted.”
The layoffs follow planned cuts across Meta’s Reality Labs division. As
previously reported, the division, which developed products such as Meta’s metaverse virtual-reality world and Meta’s Ray-Ban sunglasses, employs nearly 15,000 workers. It announced in January that it would cut nearly 10% of the division’s workforce, according to The New York Times.
At the time, a Meta spokesperson said the company will “reinvest the savings [from Reality Labs cuts] to support the growth of wearables this year,” per Fast Company.
Zuckerberg also shared comments about the company’s layoffs.
“We’re starting to see projects that used to take big teams now be accomplished by a single, very talented person,” according to the BBC.
Meta will also invest more in its AI infrastructure. This comes as Zuckerberg predicts “2026 to be the year that AI dramatically changes the way we work,” per the outlet.
Zuckerberg will also be scaling support around AI tools that will ensure software engineers can be “significantly more productive” and recognizes that there is “a big delta between the people who do it and do it well and the people who don’t.”
Meta plans to scale its spending on AI projects and infrastructure from $72 billion in 2025 to almost $135 billion in 2026, per a separate BBC article.
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