- Meta Platforms cut about 1,000 roles from its virtual reality division Reality Labs.
- The reductions come as the company shifts investment from the Metaverse toward AI-driven wearables and mobile features.
- The cuts equal roughly 10% of Reality Labs if the division employs about 15,000 people.
- Meta plans to reinvest savings to support wearables growth, according to an internal memo and a company statement.
- Industry data show the tech sector recorded about 154,000 job losses in 2025, though layoffs slowed late in the year.
Meta Platforms eliminated about 1,000 roles in its virtual reality and metaverse division, Reality Labs, the company announced in an internal memo this week. The move, communicated by CTO Andrew Bosworth and reported by Bloomberg, is part of a shift to prioritize AI-driven wearables and mobile features.
Company spokespeople said the cuts follow a strategic reallocation of resources. In a statement cited by SFGate, Tracy Clayton said, “We said last month that we were shifting some of our investment from Metaverse toward Wearables.” Clayton added the reductions were “part of that effort” and the company would “reinvest the savings to support the growth of wearables this year.”
Earlier reporting estimated Reality Labs employs about 15,000 people, making the job cuts roughly 10% of the division, according to Bloomberg. The unit has posted large losses in prior years and faced questions about user adoption and financial sustainability after a major round of cuts in November 2022 that removed about 11,000 roles and came as CEO Mark Zuckerberg reaffirmed the company’s metaverse commitment.
The reductions are small compared with broader tech job losses in 2025. Data show roughly 154,000 technology layoffs for the year. Industry tracking also shows layoffs declined late in 2025, per layoffs.fyi.
Records on the California Employment Development Department do not yet list a WARN notice attributed to Meta, according to a review of state filings available at the agency site linked as a WARN notice.
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