- BI obtained internal documents showing some of the teams and roles that were hardest hit by Meta’s cuts.
- The data shows teams under Tom Alison, Facebook’s head, had 335 job cuts.
- Meta began cutting thousands of jobs last week, which has affected roughly 5% of its workforce.
Newly obtained internal documents show some of the teams that were hit the hardest in Meta’s recent job cuts.
The tech giant began cutting thousands of jobs last week, which has affected roughly 5% of its workforce.
Business Insider obtained 30 records sent to impacted workers along with their separation agreements, which offered a picture of how Meta is reshaping its workforce.
The materials include the number of employees affected, broken down by Meta’s business groups, their teams, and their job titles. They also list the vice president or senior manager to whom each group reports. Additional records may exist, but BI has not been able to verify any.
Meta said in the documents that it provided this information under federal law to help affected employees decide whether to sign their separation agreements.
The records list 3,115 employees hit by the cuts, a figure that appears to represent a significant majority of the 5% of employees — equivalent to about 3,600 workers — who were laid off.
Among the 30 group documents reviewed by BI, the teams reporting to Tom Alison, the head of Facebook, saw the highest impact, with 335 employees affected.
The next-largest cuts came from Meta’s Horizon team, which works on its virtual reality platform. A total of 244 employees were affected in the group, reporting to Vishal Shah, the vice president of Metaverse under the Reality Labs division — the unit overseeing Meta’s VR and augmented reality efforts.
Other heavily impacted teams included those under Carmine Arabia, the vice president of devices at Reality Labs, where 195 roles in business analytics, engineering, technical sourcing, and technical program management were eliminated.
The group previously led by Lori Goler, Meta’s former head of people, saw 189 administrative roles cut.
Additionally, 186 roles tied to Meta’s data center strategy, design, engineering, and construction teams were eliminated. The group reported to Rachel Peterson, Meta’s vice president for data center strategy.
Meanwhile, the organization under Peng Fan, its vice president of engineering for monetization, saw 180 cuts, primarily software engineers.
Fan recently said in an internal memo that Meta planned to expedite the hiring process for machine learning engineers through February and March. The move came as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company would backfill roles cut in its effort to target “low performers.”
The group reporting to Alex Himel, the vice president of augmented reality, had 141 employees cut; they mostly worked on wearables.
Meta declined to comment.
Two of the seven groups most affected by the cuts are tied to Meta’s Reality Labs unit, which was recently reorganized and positioned as a core part of the business.
In a November memo obtained by BI, Meta’s chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, called 2025 a make-or-break year for the company’s metaverse ambitions.
Bosworth said this year was critical for proving whether the metaverse would be a visionary feat or a “legendary misadventure.”
Editor’s note: We’ve updated this story to further clarify that the data referenced in the 30 documents is a portion of all the data that may be available.
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