Multiple teams at Meta were hit by layoffs on Wednesday, the company confirmed in a statement to TechCrunch, noting these changes were made to reallocate resources within the company.

“Today, a few teams at Meta are making changes to ensure resources are aligned with their long-term strategic goals and location strategy,” said a Meta spokesperson in an emailed statement. “This includes moving some teams to different locations, and moving some employees to different roles. In situations like this when a role is eliminated, we work hard to find other opportunities for impacted employees.”

Employees working on Reality Labs, Instagram, and WhatsApp were affected by the layoffs, according to The Verge.

One of the employees affected by Wednesday’s layoff is Jane Manchun Wong, a software engineer who was hired to join the Threads team in 2023 after becoming known for revealing unannounced features coming to Meta apps. At the time, her appointment was celebrated by Meta’s CTO, Andrew Bosworth, and the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri.

Other former Meta employees also took to social media to announce they were laid off. Employees who previously worked on Facebook, recruiting, legal operations, and design said they had been laid off on Wednesday in social media posts viewed by TechCrunch.

A Meta spokesperson tells TechCrunch that Threads, recruiting, and legal operations were not impacted by the reorganization and there were no layoffs there. Meta declined to comment on the record about how many employees were affected and what orgs they were part of.

One former Meta employee, who worked in one of these organizations, tells TechCrunch that some employees were offered different positions under new contracts, or told they could take a severance package instead. Several took the severance package, according to the source.

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