Meta
has
begun
laying
off
employees
across
various
departments,
including
WhatsApp,
Instagram,
and
Reality
Labs,
according
to
people
familiar
with
the
matter.
Rather
than
a
mass,
companywide
layoff,
these
smaller
cuts
seem
to
coincide
with
reorganizations
of
specific
teams.
Some
Meta
employees
have
started
posting
that
they’ve
been
laid
off.
Among
them
is
Jane
Manchun
Wong,
who
gained
notoriety
for
reporting
on
unannounced
features
coming
to
apps
before
joining
the
Threads
team
in
2023.
The
Verge
asked
Meta
to
confirm
the
layoffs
and
will
update
this
story
if
we
receive
a
statement.
This
new
round
of
layoffs
follows
a
small
series
of
job
cuts
in
the
company’s
Reality
Labs
division
earlier
this
year.
Meta
first
laid
off
11,000
employees
in
2022
following
overoptimism
about
the
company’s
growth
coming
out
of
the
covid
pandemic.
It
then
announced
cuts
of
10,000
more
people
as
part
of
CEO
Mark
Zuckerberg’s
“year
of
efficiency”
in
2023.
(Originally posted by Jay Peters)
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