Meta's latest round of cuts has fallen most heavily on managers and engineers, with new filings in the United States showing who paid the price as the company accelerates its investment in AI. Roughly 8,000 roles were eliminated last month, and public disclosures covering 4,665 of those jobs in California and Washington reveal a clear pattern: managers and software engineers bore the brunt of the Meta layoffs tied to its AI push.
Meta has been reshaping its workforce since 2023, when chief executive Mark Zuckerberg made clear he wanted to strip back layers of management and avoid what he described at the time as a culture of 'managers managing managers.' The latest disclosures suggest that strategy has now collided with the company's multibillion-dollar spending on artificial intelligence.
