← Latest

Meta

about 8,000 roles worldwide
Technology · Updated
  • Unofficial: media report
  • Global
  • about 10% of staff · according to CNBC
  • AI cited by NPR and CNBC
  • +2 more reports

Unofficial. Global: about 8,000 roles worldwide, about 10% of staff, according to CNBC (23 Apr 2026), as Meta pivots toward artificial intelligence, according to NPR. Impact on Australian roles not confirmed.

Summary

Unofficial. Global: about 8,000 roles worldwide, about 10% of staff, according to CNBC (23 Apr 2026), as Meta pivots toward artificial intelligence, according to NPR. Impact on Australian roles not confirmed.

Headcount

Australian and worldwide figures are kept separate. We never add reports together or average them.

Australian roles
Not confirmed
Impact on Australian roles not confirmed
Worldwide roles
About 8,000
roles worldwide, according to CNBC

Location:Global

About 10% of staff, according to CNBC. This is the source's own figure, not our calculation.

Departments

Only where a source gives numbers. Teams under 5 roles are grouped as Other.

Breakdown not stated in reports.

Reports

3 reports, newest first. Each figure is what that source said.

  1. Unofficial: media reportNPRabout 8,000 worldwide
    Read the source (NPR, opens source)
  2. Unofficial: media reportReutersNo number
    Read the source (Reuters, opens source)
  3. Unofficial: media reportCNBCabout 8,000 worldwide
    Read the source (CNBC, opens source)

Locations

Global

Unofficial: a named media report the organisation hasn't confirmed. Figures can change. Correction requests open soon.

All Meta entries →

How we tag sources

Official means the organisation's own announcement or filing, a regulator, a government body or a union. Unofficial means a named media report the organisation hasn't confirmed. Reported means a named source has reported cuts the organisation hasn't announced. A card shows the tag of the source for its figure.

Read our methodology

Other recent entries