Meta India cuts around dozen jobs; ad sales, marketing roles take a hit

Tech major Meta India has laid off close to a dozen of its workforce in India in functions such as ad sales, marketing and individual contributor roles, sources directly aware of the development said. “Similar to the global layoffs, the impacted employees received cold emails, and have been offered foursix months’ salary as severance,” one of the executives said, adding that there has been no discussion with the impacted employees.

Meta’s India office did not respond to ET’s detailed email query sent on Friday. According to industry estimates, the company has about 400 employees, though it does not reveal country-specific workforce numbers. Meta recently announced one of its biggest and most brutal restructuring exercises cutting roughly 8,000 jobs, or 10% of its global workforce, which kicked off with emails to targeted workers at 4 am. It also reassigned 7,000 employees to new initiatives related to AI workflows and to eliminate managerial roles. In total, the layoffs and transfers impacted about 20% of the company's workforce, Reuters reported last week.

Multiple reports cited internal memos said Meta wants to build “flatter” and “more agile” organisations capable of moving faster in the AI era. Chief People Officer Janelle
Gale reportedly told employees that the restructuring is designed to create smaller teams with greater ownership while shifting resources toward AI-native initiatives.

Meta also sharply increased its AI spending commitments. At the March quarter earnings meet, Meta raised the company’s 2026 capital expenditure forecast to between $125-$145 billion, nearly on-year jump of 87%. Defending the layoffs internally, Zuckerberg told employees that “Success isn’t a given. AI is the most consequential technology of our lifetimes,” he said in an internal memo. “The companies that lead the way will define the next generation."