Meta spokesperson declines to comment on what report calls ‘fresh round of job cuts’

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Another round of layoffs reportedly is coming at Facebook parent Meta, which just announced plans to hire 100 workers and open office space in Durham. But the company declined to comment further on multiple media reports noting that cuts could be coming later this year.

“Meta delays setting team budgets as it plans fresh round of job cuts,” reported The Financial Times – one of the most prestigious news sources in the world – from London.

Following up on the report, tech news site TechCrunch said Meta did not respond to a request for comment.

But a spokesperson for Meta told WRAL TechWire on Wednesday that the company isn’t saying “anything different about speculation from what we said on our earnings call about this year being the year of efficiencies.”

That phrase, year of efficiency, is was Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg used during an investor call earlier this month.

Facebook cut some 11,000 jobs last fall.

“Two people familiar with the matter told the Financial Times that there has been a lack of clarity around budgets and the future headcount at the company,” TechCrunch noted. “The job cuts are expected to take place around March, but it’s unknown how people could be affected.”

The news comes just days after the positive job news for the Triangle.

“We have some office space located in a building on the American Tobacco Campus in Durham, and it will eventually be home to about 100 enterprise engineers,” Ryan Daniels, Meta’s public affairs manager, state & local, told WRAL TechWire on Monday.