Meta Lays Off More Than 2,000 from Menlo Park Headquarters

Bay Area Editor
Last Updated on May 30, 2026

Meta has eliminated more than 2,000 jobs at its Menlo Park headquarters in the latest wave of layoffs tied to the company’s costly shift into artificial intelligence, according to newly filed state records.

The filings show Meta cut 2,212 positions at its main Menlo Park campus and hundreds more at other Bay Area sites, part of a global plan to shed about 10 percent of its workforce, or roughly 8,000 roles. The social media giant, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has also reassigned about 7,000 employees into new AI focused teams while scrapping thousands of open positions.

This latest round ranks among the Bay Area’s largest tech job losses in years and comes on top of tens of thousands of Meta layoffs since 2022, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushes to “operate more efficiently” and redirect billions of dollars into AI infrastructure and products.

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