<p id="speakable-summary" class="wp-block-paragraph">Meta is considering major layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company’s workforce, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/meta-planning-sweeping-layoffs-ai-costs-mount-2026-03-14/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">according to Reuters</a>.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">These layoffs could help the Facebook parent company offset its <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/meta-to-spend-up-to-72b-on-ai-infrastructure-in-2025-as-compute-arms-race-escalates/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">aggressive spending on AI infrastructure</a>, as well as <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/sam-altman-says-meta-tried-and-failed-to-poach-openais-talent-with-100m-offers/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AI-related acquisitions and hiring</a>. Meta employed nearly 79,000 people as of December 31, according to a recent filing.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“This is speculative reporting about theoretical approaches,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The report comes as many tech companies — <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/26/jack-dorsey-block-layoffs-4000-halved-employees-your-company-is-next/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">most recently Block</a> — have announced sweeping layoffs that they say are necessary as AI automates more work. But some pundits, and <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/layoffs-sam-altman-ai-washing-21647451.php" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">even executives like OpenAI’s Sam Altman</a>, have suggested that many of these cuts are “<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/01/ai-layoffs-or-ai-washing/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AI-washing</a>,” where executives <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-13/the-ai-washing-of-job-cuts-is-corrosive-and-confusing" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">use AI as cover for other issues</a>, such as over-hiring during the pandemic.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The last time Meta announced layoffs of this scale was in November 2022, when it <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/09/meta-confirms-11000-layoffs-amounting-to-13-of-its-workforce/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cut 11,000 jobs</a>, followed by <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/14/meta-to-cut-another-10000-jobs-zuckerberg-says/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">another 10,000 in March 2023</a>.</p>
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