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Meta is making another steep cut to its staff, this time to the tune of a 10 percent reduction
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Meta is making another steep cut to its staff, this time to the tune of a 10 percent reduction in its workforce.
Key facts
- It also kicked off 2026 by slashing its metaverse operations with the closure of three VR studios
- Meta is making another steep cut to its staff, this time to the tune of a 10 percent reduction in its workforce
- In an internal memo from Janelle Gale, Meta's head of human resources, the latest cuts are "part of their continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow them to offset the other
- Meta is building its own models and apparently training them on its own staff
Summary
In an internal memo from Janelle Gale, Meta's head of human resources, the latest cuts are "part of their continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow them to offset the other investments they're making. Meta is building its own models and apparently training them on its own staff. Today's layoffs likely don't mark the end of Meta's current contraction.