Employer · WARN Act history · Information Technology
Meta Platforms
22,063 workers across 8 WARN notices, primarily in CA - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
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Meta Platforms has 8 recorded WARN filings affecting 22,063 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Meta Platforms has 8 recorded filings covering 22,063 workers across 2 states, primarily CA, the 6th-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.
Meta Platforms is a major Information Technology contributor — 19% of the sector's 117,723 WARN-laid-off workers across 194 employers, ranking #1 in Information Technology.
How 22,063 workers split by filing year
Calendar-year totals from WARN notice_date fields in this dataset, the same figures summed in the notice history below.
Meta Platforms WARN workers by state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, grouped by the state agency that received the notice, not a corporate headcount by HQ state.
Meta Platforms WARN workers by year and state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, crossed by calendar year and filing state, for the top 2 states by total workers affected.
| Year | CA | WA | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 324 | 331 | 655 |
| 2025 | – | 101 | 101 |
| 2023 | 10,000 | – | 10,000 |
| 2022 | 11,000 | 307 | 11,307 |
Meta Platforms city concentration · single-city dominant
Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.
95.2% of named-city WARN workers for Meta Platforms sit in Menlo Park (21,000 of 22,063).
Lead city Menlo Park · 95.2% · 7 named cities · top-3 share 98.1%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer META-PLATFOR · Meta Platforms 22,063 workers · 8 filings
NOTC-MID · WORK-TOP · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-EXACT · STAT-MULTI · BOOK-MULTI · TYPE-LAYOFF
- NOTC-MID 8 filings
- WORK-TOP #6
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-EXACT 60d
- STAT-MULTI 2 states
- BOOK-MULTI 3 agencies
- TYPE-LAYOFF 8 layoffs
Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.
Largest Meta Platforms WARN filings · notice runway
Top 5 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.
- Menlo Park, CA · Layoff · Information Technology 11,000 workers · filed Nov 9, 2022 · 0d runway
- Menlo Park, CA · Layoff · Information Technology 10,000 workers · filed Mar 14, 2023 · 0d runway
- King County, WA · Layoff · Other Services 331 workers · filed Jan 19, 2026 · 60d runway
- Bellevue, WA · Layoff · Other Services 307 workers · filed Nov 11, 2022 · 63d runway
- Airport Boulevard Burlingame, CA · Layoff · Information Technology 219 workers · filed Jan 16, 2026 · 0d runway
Median forward runway across 8 dated filings: 0 days (5 under 60d · 3 at/above 60d · 5 same-day or retroactive).
What changed - Meta Platforms WARN filings by year
Computed from filed notice dates in this dataset (calendar years), not a vendor release label. Latest compared pair: .
- 2023 → 2025: WARN workers affected for Meta Platforms fell from 10,000 in 2023 to 101 in 2025; notice count held from 1 to 1.
- 2022 → 2023: WARN workers affected for Meta Platforms fell from 11,307 in 2022 to 10,000 in 2023; notice count fell from 2 to 1.
- 2025 → 2026: WARN workers affected for Meta Platforms rose from 101 in 2025 to 655 in 2026; notice count rose from 1 to 4.
Site-wide YoY movers: /changes (RSS). Dataset corrections: /changelog. Year hubs: /year/2026.
Where Meta Platforms Falls Among Tracked Employers
7,009 employers with a WARN filing, bucketed by total workers affected
Bucket counts (employers by total workers affected, as of September 2026): 1-10: 955; 11-50: 1,411; 51-150: 3,067; 151-500: 1,205; 501-1.5k: 273; 1.5k-5k: 72; 5k-15k: 16; 15k+: 10. Meta Platforms is in the 15k+ bucket (#6 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
- Primary State
- CA
- Primary Industry
- Information Technology
- First Notice
- Nov 9, 2022
- Latest Notice
- Feb 2, 2026
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Feb 2026.
WARN Notice History
2026
Discovery Way Sunnyvale, CA · Information Technology
Effective: Feb 2, 2026
52
workers
Filed Feb 2, 2026
King County, WA · Other Services
Effective: Mar 20, 2026
331
workers
Filed Jan 19, 2026
E Waterfront Drive Playa Vista, CA · Information Technology
Effective: Jan 16, 2026
53
workers
Filed Jan 16, 2026
Airport Boulevard Burlingame, CA · Information Technology
Effective: Jan 16, 2026
219
workers
Filed Jan 16, 2026
2025
Seattle, WA · Other Services
Effective: Dec 22, 2025
101
workers
Filed Oct 23, 2025
2023
Menlo Park, CA · Information Technology
Effective: Mar 14, 2023
10,000
workers
Filed Mar 14, 2023
2022
Bellevue, WA · Other Services
Effective: Jan 13, 2023
307
workers
Filed Nov 11, 2022
Menlo Park, CA · Information Technology
Effective: Nov 9, 2022
11,000
workers
Filed Nov 9, 2022
Questions about this Meta Platforms record
What is the largest Meta Platforms WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the mass layoff filed for Menlo Park, CA on Nov 9, 2022, covering 11,000 workers in Information Technology.
Where were Meta Platforms's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name Discovery Way Sunnyvale, King County, and E Waterfront Drive Playa Vista, among 7 named cities; together they form 8 mass-layoff filings sourced from California EDD and Washington ESD and the public WARN archive. States represented in this record: CA, WA.
Where is Meta Platforms's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
95.2% of named-city WARN workers for Meta Platforms sit in Menlo Park (21,000 of 22,063).
Does Meta Platforms's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
The filing history spans 2022 through 2026 across 4 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.
How much advance notice appears in Meta Platforms's record? ▼
The measurable notice runway lands exactly on the federal 60-day baseline; verify the source dates before treating that timing as final. Of 8 filings on record, 5 without a published effective date are excluded from that figure.
See also: CA WARN filings · Information Technology industry WARNs · WARN Act guide · largest WARN employers
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Meta Platforms notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.
Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.