Multiple teams at Meta were reportedly hit with layoffs on Wednesday, the company confirmed in a statement to TechCrunch, pointing out that these changes were made to reallocate resources within the company.

Today, a few teams at Meta are moving to make sure their resources are aligned with their long-term strategic goals and location strategy," said a Meta spokesperson, responding to the company via email. "This may involve some teams relocating to new locations, and also some employees on those teams may relocate to other roles. In circumstances like that where a role is ended, we work really hard to place impacted employees elsewhere.".

The Verge reported that layoffs hit employees in the Reality Labs, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

There is Jane Manchun Wong, who was a software engineer Meta hired in 2023 to work with the Threads team after gaining fame for revealing unannounced features coming to Meta apps. When she was hired, Meta's CTO, Andrew Bosworth, as well as Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, welcomed her appointment.

Other former Meta employees took to social media to declare they had been laid off. More employees who have worked on Facebook, recruiting, legal operations, and design said in social media posts that they have been laid off on Wednesday, according to TechCrunch.

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

A former Meta employee who worked in one of those organisations and wished to remain anonymous tells TechCrunch that some were given alternative job offers under new contracts while others were told they had the option of taking a severance package. Several people took the severance package, this person adds.

More than a dozen employees on one of their teams were told that their jobs were affected, the former employee said, speaking with TechCrunch on Wednesday while taking video calls. Some of the employees whose jobs were affected on Wednesday received six weeks of severance pay, said the former Meta employee, who was granted anonymity because the situation is sensitive.

Meta, in the past year, has cut a good part of its workforce in a move to rightsize itself after the firm had overhired amid the pandemic. Last year, Meta let go 13% of its workforce, or 11,000 employees, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg who held himself personally responsible for that move. The year was 2023 when Meta laid off 10,000 employees and canceled 5,000 open roles it had yet to fill.

Correction: An earlier version of this story reported that Threads, recruiting, and legal operations were all included in the reorganization announced by Meta on Wednesday. Meta called The Press to correct the fact that these organizations were not included in the reorganization.