Facebook app owner Meta Platforms has disclosed plans to chop more than 1,500 jobs in the Bay Area, layoffs that suggest the region’s waves of tech cutbacks have yet to relent.
The most recent Meta Platform layoffs are slated to affect the tech company’s workers in Menlo Park, Sunnyvale, Burlingame, San Francisco and Fremont, according to WARN notices filed on April 24 with the state Employment Development Department.
Meta Platforms has now revealed plans to eliminate slightly over 4,000 jobs in the Bay Area, based on filings during 2022 and so far in 2023.
During late 2022, Meta Platforms revealed plans to chop 2,564 jobs in the same five cities as the latest round of layoffs. The 1,506 layoffs that Meta Platforms disclosed in April means that the tech titan has decided to chop 4,070 jobs in the Bay Area, this news organiztion’s review of the EDD WARN notices shows.
The most recently disclosed layoffs are slated to occur around June 23. Some of the Menlo Park layoffs will occur around July 21, according to the filings with the state labor agency.
Starting in mid-2022, tech companies have revealed plans to chop at least 21,900 jobs in the Bay Area, this news organization’s review of the EDD reports shows.
