Meta India has laid off close to a dozen employees in functions such as ad sales, marketing, and individual contributor roles, according to sources. The impacted workers received cold emails and have been offered four to six months' salary as severance, with no prior discussion.
This move is part of Meta's broader global restructuring, which involves cutting roughly 8,000 jobs (10% of its global workforce) and reassigning 7,000 employees to AI-related initiatives. The layoffs and transfers affect about 20% of the company's workforce.
Meta aims to build flatter, more agile organizations to move faster in the AI era. Chief People Officer Janelle Gale reportedly stated that the restructuring will create smaller teams with greater ownership while shifting resources toward AI-native initiatives.
Meta has also sharply increased its AI spending, raising its 2026 capital expenditure forecast to $125-$145 billion, a nearly 87% year-on-year jump. CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended the layoffs internally, saying, "Success isn't a given. AI is the most consequential technology of our lifetimes."
According to industry estimates, Meta India has about 400 employees, though the company does not reveal country-specific workforce numbers.
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