Meta is launching a new round of layoffs that will eliminate hundreds of positions across multiple teams including sales, recruiting, and Reality Labs. The layoffs involve employees in the United States and other international markets. Some affected employees will have the opportunity to transfer positions within the company or retain their positions through off-site work arrangements.
Meta said in a written statement that the company's teams will be regularly reorganized or adjusted to ensure that they are in the best position to achieve business goals, and emphasized that other job opportunities will be found for affected employees when possible. It is reported that the scale of this round of layoffs will be controlled below 1,000 people. By the end of 2025, Meta employs nearly 79,000 employees worldwide.
The new round of layoffs comes as Meta is aggressively increasing investment in the field of artificial intelligence. The company expects capital expenditures to reach record levels in 2026, ranging from US$115 billion to US$135 billion, with funds focused on AI-related infrastructure and research and development.
This is Meta’s second layoff in 2026. In January this year, Meta just laid off about 10% of its employees in the Reality Labs department, about 1,000 people, which accounts for a large proportion of the department’s total number of about 15,000 employees. The layoffs at the time were primarily targeted at teams responsible for virtual reality and augmented reality hardware and related technologies.
Outside analysts believe that the continuous layoffs and record-breaking capital expenditure guidance reflect that Meta is shifting more resources to artificial intelligence and future core technology layout by compressing some labor costs. However, for laid-off employees and some business lines, this also means that a new round of structural adjustments and uncertainty are intensifying.