Meta announced a 10% layoff expected to affect 8,000 employees worldwide. WARN filings released Thursday list affected workers across Bay Area offices, including 2,212 at 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park, 313 at 1180 Discovery Way in Sunnyvale, and 74 at 12105 East Waterfront Drive in Playa Vista. The largest cuts involve software engineers in Menlo Park supporting major social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, including teams behind business-facing AI products like BizAI and Core Ads. Reality Labs staff in Burlingame continue to be reduced. Some roles in a Data Center & Pastry Culinary Team Group were also eliminated. Employees were notified May 20 and will be separated by July 22, with severance of 16 weeks base pay plus two additional weeks per year of employment.
"New records show thousands of Bay Area employees are on Meta's chopping block, all part of a 10% layoff announced last week expected to affect 8,000 worldwide. Three WARN filings released Thursday reveal a larger swath of engineers laid off as the company pivots to artificial intelligence. Affected employees include 2,212 workers at the company's headquarters at 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park, 313 workers at its 1180 Discovery Way, Sunnyvale, office, and 74 at its 12105 East Waterfront Drive, Playa Vista, office in Los Angeles County."
"The largest layoffs appear to be software engineers in Menlo Park across Meta's biggest social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. These include major cuts to teams responsible for its business-facing AI products integrated in those apps, like BizAI and Core Ads. Elsewhere in the company, three chef positions were cut in the "Data Center & Pastry Culinary Team Group.""
"In Burlingame, Meta continues to gut its Reality Labs staff, responsible for developing virtual reality and wearable tech. The company announced in April that it would be "right-sizing" that area due to little growth in the VR industry, though it's also cost Meta billions in revenue in recent years. The WARN filings, which are mandated by the state in the event of mass layoffs, say that Meta notified employees on May 20, and will separate by July 22."
"Severance will include 16 weeks of base pay, with an additional two weeks for every year employment, according to Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton. "The changes we are implementing vary by team and include layoffs, open role closures, and moving thousands of employees to business critical priorities across the company," Clayton said in an email."
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