Meta to put off 100 in Israel, reassign 200 to AI

Meta (previously Fb) just lately introduced that it was laying of 10% of its workforce worldwide – about 8,000 workers. The corporate additionally introduced that 7,000 workers could be transferred to new positions associated to AI.

As beforehand reported by “Globes,” greater than 100 workers out of 1,000 Meta workers in Israel will lose their jobs. As well as “Globes” has discovered that about 200 Meta Israel workers, 20% of the workforce in Israel, might be transferred to new jobs in groups coping with the event of AI.

As well as, a number of dozen mid-level managers are anticipated to lose their managerial positions. The transfer is a part of the streamlining coverage led by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, to scale back layers of administration that he says are slowing down the groups’ work tempo.

“Bloomberg” has reported that the corporate estimates that one other spherical of layoffs is anticipated later this yr. In response to estimates obtained by “Globes,” an analogous spherical of cuts, amounting to about 10% of the corporate’s workforce, is anticipated in August or September, forward of Meta’s annual Join convention. Meta has already made a number of vital rounds of cuts, and Wall Road would have preferred to see the corporate return to specializing in its core enterprise – promoting – alongside investments in AI, whereas distancing itself from the metaverse imaginative and prescient. The corporate is anticipated to take a position greater than $100 billion in capital expenditure this yr, primarily in creating applied sciences resembling AI and the metaverse.

The mass layoffs have been looming over Meta workers for weeks. The corporate introduced the spherical of layoffs in April, and till the final minute, many workers nonetheless didn’t know if they might be affected.

No response has been forthcoming from Meta Israel.

Printed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on Might 20, 2026.