SEATTLE – Dozens of employees will be laid off in the greater Seattle area as Facebook’s parent company Meta reorganizes their artificial intelligence operations. The layoffs come just days before the Christmas holiday week.
More than 100 people will be let go on or by Dec. 22, 2025. The employees will be those based in Seattle, Bellevue, and Redmond, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN).
Keep reading for more about where the layoffs are happening and which departments are impacted.
A photo shows the Meta group logo during the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, on June 14, 2023. (ALAIN JOCARD / AFP) (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images)
By the numbers:
The announcement of 101 layoffs at Meta comes the same day that Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs to their corporate workforce. reached out to the Seattle-based company, but their representative said information on exactly how many of those 14,000 positions would be Washington employees was not available to them.
In Seattle, 23 employees will be laid off from their Dexter Avenue location. This will be in addition to 48 employees at their 121st Ave. location in Bellevue and four employees on WIllows Road in Redmond.
The company will also let go of 23 remote employees currently working in Washington state.
The company is retracting its Pacific Northwest footprint amid an ongoing reorganization to increase efficiency within their changing artificial intelligence divisions, according to a report from GeekWire.
Included in the departments with layoffs coming this December are:
More departments and positions are listed within Meta’s announcement, linked below.
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The Source: Information in this story came from a letter from Meta, a WARN from the state of Washington, and a report from GeekWire.
트위터 공유: 메타 시애틀 일대 100명 해고 충격