Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, as he delivers a speech presenting the new line of smart glasses, during the Meta Connect event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., Sept. 17, 2025.
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Meta is laying off several hundred employees on Wednesday, CNBC confirmed.
The cuts are happening across several different organizations within the company, including Facebook, global operations, recruiting, sales and its virtual reality division Reality Labs, according to a source familiar with the company’s plans who asked not to be named because they are confidential.
Some impacted employees are being offered new roles within the company, the person said. In some cases, those new positions will require relocation.
“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,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.
The layoffs come as Meta has been refocusing its efforts and pouring billions of dollars into artificial intelligence, where the social media giant has been racing to catch up to rivals like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
The Information was first to report the cuts.
In January, Meta cut employees focused within its Reality Labs division and shut down a number of studios that were working on VR titles, CNBC previously reported.
The New York Times reported that the January layoffs hit more than 1,000 jobs and would impact about 10% of the hardware division, which makes Quest VR headsets, and the Horizon Worlds virtual social network.
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