{"id":147869,"date":"2026-01-24T14:13:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T14:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/147869\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T14:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T14:13:40","slug":"facebook-app-owner-meta-decides-to-chop-hundreds-of-bay-area-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/147869\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook app owner Meta decides to chop hundreds of Bay Area jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BURLINGAME \u2014 Facebook owner Meta Platforms disclosed plans to slash hundreds of jobs in the Bay Area, reductions that arrive at a time of ongoing job losses for the region\u2019s tech industry.<\/p>\n<p>The decision will affect 219 positions at 311 Airport Blvd. in Burlingame, the company reported to the state Employment Development Department in an official WARN letter.<\/p>\n<p>Menlo Park-based Meta Platforms said the cuts would take place on or around March 20, according to the WARN notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeparations resulting from this action are expected to be permanent,\u201d Meta Platforms Chief People Officer Janelle Gale stated in the WARN letter. \u201cNone of the above-described affected employees are represented by any union. Separated employees are not permitted to displace remaining employees based on seniority or any other factor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure arrives just weeks after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/10\/28\/economy-tech-jobs-layoff-meta-facebook-chips-web-data-ai-internet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">company cut at least 308 jobs in Menlo Park<\/a>, which took effect on Dec. 22, 2025, a prior WARN notice stated.<\/p>\n<p>Staffing reductions in the Bay Area are part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/meta-layoffs-reality-labs-2026-347008b0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meta\u2019s decision to jettison 1,500 jobs<\/a> from its virtual reality unit. Some workers affected might be able to remain with the company in other positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAffected employees who are offered and accept another position with the company before their anticipated separation date will not be separated from employment as a result of this action,\u201d Gale said.<\/p>\n<p>Meta Platforms is far from alone in eliminating tech jobs in the Bay Area, according to seasonally adjusted estimates from Beacon Economics that this news organization has reviewed.<\/p>\n<p>Over the one-year period that ended in November 2025, tech companies eliminated a net total of 29,500 jobs in the region, the Beacon Economics assessment revealed. Beacon derived the industry data from the state EDD\u2019s official monthly reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BURLINGAME \u2014 Facebook owner Meta Platforms disclosed plans to slash hundreds of jobs in the Bay Area, reductions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[389,184,41758,387,7,8,392,332,383,23695,7153,1286,1533,181,6113,23,992,2649,3938,100,993,395,182,396,88,90,89,397,198,2280,2720,3628,200,1970],"class_list":{"0":"post-147869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-alameda-county","9":"tag-bay-area","10":"tag-burlingame","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-california-news","14":"tag-contra-costa-county","15":"tag-east-bay","16":"tag-economy","17":"tag-facebook-meta","18":"tag-job-cuts","19":"tag-jobs","20":"tag-keywee","21":"tag-latest-headlines","22":"tag-layoffs","23":"tag-local-news","24":"tag-marin-county","25":"tag-menlo-park","26":"tag-napa-county","27":"tag-news","28":"tag-north-bay","29":"tag-peninsula","30":"tag-pm-report","31":"tag-san-francisco-county","32":"tag-san-jose","33":"tag-san-jose-headlines","34":"tag-san-jose-news","35":"tag-san-mateo-county","36":"tag-santa-clara-county","37":"tag-silicon-valley","38":"tag-solano-county","39":"tag-sonoma-county","40":"tag-south-bay","41":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}