Facebook's owner Meta chops thousands of Bay Area jobs | | victoriaadvocate.com

MENLO PARK, California — Facebook app owner Meta Platforms has decided to chop thousands of jobs in the Bay Area, a fresh round of painful tech layoffs that will jolt five cities in this region, state labor officials report.All told, the owner of the Facebook app disclosed plans to jettison 2,564 jobs in the Bay Area, according to official notices sent to the state’s Employment Development Department.The tech titan’s job cuts will affect workers in Menlo Park — Meta’s hometown and world headquarters and by far the hardest hit — as well as Meta Platforms employees in Sunnyvale, Fremont, Burlingame and San Francisco.The layoffs are poised to raise red flags about the pace and outcome of the Bay Area’s years-long struggle to recover from its mammoth job losses during the first two months of the coronavirus outbreak in March 2020 and April 2020. The once-robust region has yet to regain those lost jobs.Statewide, the Facebook owner has decided to terminate more than 2,700 positions, including the layoffs in Los Angeles.Here’s how many people will be laid off in the six California cities affected by the job cuts, according to the WARN letters:—1,642 in several locations in Menlo Park, including at
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