Meta Prepares Hundreds of Layoffs as Part of Regular Restructuring

Meta will lay off several hundred people across Reality Labs, social media, recruiting and sales on Wednesday (March 25), The Information reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.

The company employed more than 78,000 people as of the end of 2025, according to the report.

Wednesday’s layoffs will be in addition to the 1,500 job cuts Meta made in its Reality Labs business in January and the cuts that impacted 5% of the company’s workforce in February 2025, per the report.

Asked about the report by The Information, a Meta spokesperson said: “Teams across Meta regularly restructure or implement changes to ensure they’re in the best position to achieve their goals. Where possible, we are finding other opportunities for employees whose positions may be impacted.”

Reuters reported March 13, citing unnamed sources, that Meta was planning layoffs that would impact at least 20% of its workforce, though the company had not set a date for the job cuts or finalized the scope of the layoffs.

That report noted that the planned cuts were coming at a time when Meta is looking to offset its heavy spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure, while also preparing for what it hopes will be more efficiencyfrom AI-assisted workers.

A Meta spokesperson told Reuters at the time, in response to queries about this plan: “This is speculative reporting about theoretical approaches.”

Meta said Thursday (March 19) that it will phase out some human moderators at its current third-party vendors as it shifts more of the content enforcement efforts on its apps to its new AI systems. The company said people will still play a key role in appeals of account disablement, reports to law enforcement and other critical decisions.

When the earlier layoffs in Meta’s Reality Labs unit were reported in January, Bloomberg News characterized the move as part of a larger plan by the company to reduce its focus on virtual reality products as it concentrates on other AI wearables.

About a year earlier, when Meta made a 5% workforce reduction across the company, it was reported that company executives described the move in internal messages as a cut of “low performers.”