Meta to Cut About 350 Jobs in Ireland as Restructuring Continues

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has notified approximately 350 of its 1,800 employees in Ireland that their roles are being eliminated. The cuts are part of a previously announced global restructuring plan to reduce the company's workforce by about 10%, or 8,000 positions.

The company began informing affected staff in Ireland via email, and has submitted a legally required collective redundancy notification to Ireland's Department of Enterprise. The job losses are understood to particularly impact engineering and product teams. This marks the latest in a series of redundancies at Meta's Irish operations, following significant cuts in 2022 and 2023 that have reduced its peak Irish workforce by roughly 40% since before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Company executives have cited a strategic shift toward artificial intelligence as a primary driver for the layoffs. In internal memos, Meta stated the cuts are part of an effort to run the company more efficiently and to offset substantial investments in AI. The tech giant plans to spend well in excess of €100 billion on AI capital expenditures this year. Concurrently, the company is reassigning around 7,000...