Meta's mass layoffs hit nearly 3,200 Bay Area workers, among region's worst job losses in years

Meta's 10% workforce reduction affected at least 3,196 Bay Area workers, according to additional state filings that showed one of the region's biggest job losses in years.

The tech giant cut 2,212 jobs at its Menlo Park headquarters and another 313 jobs at 1180 Discovery Way in Sunnyvale. Those notices come on top of earlier filings that showed cuts of 338 workers in Burlingame, 252 in San Francisco and 81 in Fremont.

Meta also said 74 employees were laid off at 12105 E Waterfront Dr. in Los Angeles' Playa Vista neighborhood.

The company, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, laid off around 8,000 workers globally as it invests billions in artificial intelligence. The Bay Area job losses are now more than double the nearly 1,400 workers laid off in the Seattle area.

Tech layoffs have continued relentlessly for over three years, and Intuit, Cisco and Microsoft's LinkedIn all had mass layoffs earlier this month.

However, the Bay Area's unemployment rates have remained relatively low as other sectors like healthcare, leisure and hospitality added jobs. San Mateo County had only a 3.3% unemployment rate in April, the second-lowest in the state behind only Mono County, and far below California's 5.3% unemployment rate.

Meanwhile, some AI startups continue to hire hundreds of people. Anthropic raised $65 billion on Thursday at a valuation of $965 billion, a higher amount than its rival OpenAI.

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This story was originally published May 28, 2026 at 7:13 PM.