MENLO PARK: Meta Platforms cut several hundred jobs across multiple teams on March 25, describing the move as part of regular restructuring and saying it was seeking other opportunities inside the company for some affected workers. The latest reductions add to a series of workforce changes at the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, which has continued to reorganize operations while expanding investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure and related technical capacity during 2026.
Meta did not publish a full tally or team by team breakdown of the March 25 reductions. The company had 78,865 employees as of Dec. 31, 2025, according to its annual report, which makes the latest move far smaller than earlier companywide layoffs. In the same filing, Meta said it periodically makes organizational changes to pursue greater efficiency and to realign business and strategic priorities, while providing severance, healthcare support and career services to employees whose roles are eliminated.
The March reductions follow earlier cuts at Reality Labs in January and come after Meta’s much larger layoff rounds in late 2022 and 2023, when the company eliminated 11,000 positions and then 10,000 more. Those earlier actions reshaped recruiting, real estate and several product groups and became a defining part of the company’s post-pandemic cost reset. Wednesday’s move, while much smaller, shows Meta is still adjusting staffing levels as it reviews team structures and operating needs.
Restructuring meets rising infrastructure spend
Meta told investors in January that it expects 2026 capital expenditures, including principal payments on finance leases, to be in the range of $115 billion to $135 billion. The company said the year over year increase would be driven by higher investment to support Meta Superintelligence Labs and its core business. Meta also said it expected to deliver operating income in 2026 above 2025 levels despite the step up in infrastructure spending, underscoring how central the current investment cycle has become to its financial planning.
The company’s annual report also showed how rapidly that buildout has expanded. Property and equipment, net, stood at $176.4 billion at the end of 2025, up sharply from a year earlier. Within that total, Meta reported $98.04 billion in servers and network assets and $50.52 billion in construction in progress, figures that reflect the scale of data center, network and computing projects already underway. Those disclosures provide the clearest public picture of the operating environment around the latest workforce changes.
Reality Labs remains in focus
Reality Labs continues to be a closely watched part of Meta’s business because it houses the company’s Quest headsets, Horizon products and other hardware and software tied to virtual and augmented reality. The unit has already been part of this year’s staffing changes, and its position inside the broader company keeps it central to investor and industry attention whenever Meta makes further organizational adjustments. The latest layoffs did not come with a public breakdown by unit, but the company confirmed that the reductions were part of routine restructuring.
The new cuts leave Meta entering the rest of 2026 with a workforce still near 79,000, a large infrastructure expansion program and an ongoing internal review of how teams are organized. In its public statement on the layoffs, the company said teams across Meta regularly restructure to put themselves in the best position to achieve their goals and that, where possible, it is identifying other roles for employees whose positions may be affected. The company did not release a precise count of the latest cuts. – By Content Syndication Services.