Meta lays off about 8,000 employees and reallocates workers to AI-focused roles

Last month, Meta laid off 10% of its workforce to counter AI spending, and reassigned another 10% of staffers to a mandatory AI teams to train its models. Now, the company’s chief technology officer, Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, said that morale at Meta is “probably one of the worst it’s ever been.”  According to Business Insider, during a June 2 internal meeting called “Tuesdays with Boz,” Bosworth said morale is “maybe not the worst it’s ever been in 20 years here, but it’s probably up there. It’s definitely up there.” “I can think Cambridge Analytica was probably the worst,” Bosworth added, referring to the 2010s political scandal when up to 87 million Facebook users’ data was used to target voters without their consent. Meta declined to provide further comment to Fast Company. Aside from the layoffs, employee dissatisfaction with Meta has grown for other reasons in the last few months.  In April, the company faced backlash for using mouse-tracking software to collect employee data that would train its AI models. Staffers pushed back by creating an online petition and posting flyers across U.S. offices encouraging Meta employees to sign. At the same time, Meta plans to spend up to $145 billion this year on AI infrastructure. Fast Company previously reported that Meta employees were venting about AI and layoffs on Blind. According to a report from the anonymous workplace forum, posts containing negative sentiment about AI at Meta had grown to 83% since late 2025—a roughly 300% jump since 2024, when 20% of posts on the site about AI at Meta were negative. “Meta is dead and depressing,” one post on the platform said after the company’s layoff announcements; “They do not care about the employees anymore and all they care about is AI,” another post read.  In April, Meta reported $56.31 billion in revenue— a 33% year-over-year increase—and nearly $26.8 billion in profit for the first three months of the year. Employees, on the other hand, have had their stock portion of annual raises cut by 5%, and, according to Wired, median total compensation dropped from $417,400 in 2024 to $388,200 last year. “Meta needs to be the best place for the best people to do their best work,” Bosworth said in a memo issued Monday, which was first reported by Wired.  According to a portion of the memo—titled “Back to Day 1”—provided to Fast Company from sources close to the matter, Bosworth also said the company “must provide our people the support to do things the right way for the long term, including taking smart risks when the situation calls for it and to be recognized for it.”  “If we can deliver on these commitments, I hope we can rekindle the best of the culture we joined,” Bosworth also wrote. “One where people have the psychological safety to take risks and do the right thing over a long period of time.” “We shook up the management structure that was providing you stability while rapid changes in strategy, including the boom/bust cycle of hiring, left entire teams in the lurch,” Bosworth added in the memo, as Wired reported. To make up for the dip in employee morale, Bosworth outlined that staffers would receive more attention by capping managers at 20 direct reports, and placing a limit on the number of times employees switch to new managers as a result of restructurings. He also added that Meta leadership would work towards better explaining company strategy shifts to employees. Bosworth added that Meta doesn’t believe AI would outright replace AI workers, but that someone more skilled in AI might.  “We should heed the saying, ‘AI won’t take your job, but someone who knows AI might,’” he added, echoing a sentiment that other AI leaders—like Nvidia’s Jensen Huang—have said. Finally, he added that he would work towards making Meta a “fun and enjoyable” place. Some of those tactics include improving workplace perks, like the break areas with snacks and drinks, and increasing travel budgets and spending on social events.  Time will tell if smaller team sizes and snacks will be enough to boost the energy of a workforce that has been turned upside down in a few short months.

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Meta's 8,000-person layoff on May 20 hit middle managers and software engineers hardest, with public filings showing more than 1,400 managers cut, nearly half of them software engineering managers. The data has reopened CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 2023 line that he didn't want "managers managing managers" at Meta. With AI capex hitting $145 billion this year, the company is now reshaping its org chart around smaller teams and individual builders.

The two groups made up more than half of Meta's layoffs in California and Washington state. Meta is embracing small teams and AI tools internally.

In April, Meta employees were told that 8,000 or 10 per cent of the workforce would be laid off in May as the company readied itself for the era of artificial intelligence. Thousands more would be reassigned to AI initiatives.

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This week, Meta laid off 8,000 employees—10 percent of the company’s staff—and reassigned another 7,000 to train AI models. Fear of the layoffs had been building around the company for weeks, compounded by the way that Meta has taken a sharp turn from a company built by coders to a company that has staked its […]

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Meta lays off around 10 percent of its total staff as it pivots toward AI.

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Social media giant Meta laid off about 8,000 workers on Wednesday among its 78,000-person headcount.

Meta cancels hiring plans for 6,000 roles amid ongoing layoffs and a pivot to artificial intelligence development.

The social media giant will also shift 7,000 staffers into new AI-focused roles and eliminate 6,000 open positions.

The cuts of roughly 8,000 jobs, or 10% of staff, are meant to offset the cost of the company’s AI investments.

Meta is alerting thousands of employees that they’re being laid off, part of a previously announced restructuring aimed at reducing costs while the company invests heavily in artificial intelligence. The company began notifying workers around the world Wednesday morning, starting with employees across Asia, who got the note at 4 a.m. Singapore time. US-based staff are also expected to receive word during their morning, according to an internal memo. Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

Meta Platforms Inc. is alerting thousands of employees that they’re being laid off, part of a restructuring aimed at improving efficiency and reducing costs as the company invests heavily in artificial intelligence.

Meta is moving 7,000 employees into roles focused on AI and consolidating them into four new organizations, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Meta told employees last month that it would carry out mass layoffs on May 20, as the Silicon Valley giant tries to transform into an A.I.-first company.

Exclusive: Some employees will be moved to new teams focused on AI agents and cloud infrastructureAs Meta races to recenter itself around artificial intelligence, the tech giant is mandating more than 7,000 workers must move to new teams, and it’s radically changing some employees’ jobs. The Guardian has also learned that some of these reassigned employees will shift to two new teams: one building AI cloud infrastructure and another that’s building an internal AI agent codenamed Hatch.Late last week, Meta employees received a notice that engineers had been “selected” for reassignment and would begin reporting to the cloud infrastructure and Hatch teams by the end of this week. Meta made a similar move last month when it reshuffled at least 1,000 engineers onto a new data labelling team called Applied AI, or AAI – at first giving them the option to volunteer, but later telling workers, “transfers aren’t optional.” Continue reading...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Meta told employees on Monday that it was reassigning 7,000 workers to focus on new initiatives around artificial intelligence, the latest change in a company transformation spurred by the powerful technology. Employees will be moved to four new organizations focused on building new A.I. tools and apps, Janelle Gale, Meta's head of human resources, said in an internal memo. The organizations will use "A.I. native design structures" and have fewer managers per employee than other parts of the company, she said, adding that company leaders will send details about the new roles on Wednesday. The restructuring "will make us more productive and make the work more rewarding," Ms. Gale wrote. Meta declined to comment further on the changes. The move comes shortly before Meta begins laying off roughly 8,000 employees, or 10 percent of its work force. Ms. Gale also mentioned Wednesday's layoffs in her memo. "We know days like this are extremely hard, and we appreciate you showing up for each other," Ms. Gale said. According to the NYT, employees have been asked to work remotely that day and emails about the layoffs would be sent at 4 a.m. local time. Employees in the United States will receive 16 weeks of severance pay, along with two extra weeks for every year they worked at Meta. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Chief People Officer Janelle Gale’s Monday memo described ‘smaller teams’ and a ‘flatter’ structure built around new AI groups for agents, apps, and infrastructure. Layoffs are due later this week. The Meta Saga continues with layoffs and “reassigning”. Meta Platforms is reassigning 7,000 workers to new artificial-intelligence-focused jobs as part of a broad corporate restructuring, […] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta Chief People Officer ‌Janelle Gale told employees the company plans to move 7,000 employees to new initiatives related to AI workflows and to eliminate managerial roles, in a memo

The company is transferring workers to four new organizations building AI tools and apps, according to NYT and Reuters.

In the memo, Meta Chief People Officer Janelle Gale told employees the company plans to move 7,000 employees to new initiatives related to AI workflows and to eliminate managerial roles.

Meta Platforms Inc. is reassigning 7,000 workers to new jobs related to artificial intelligence, according to an internal memo, part of a broad corporate restructuring that includes planned staff reductions later this week.

The company announced the changes two days before it plans to lay off 10 percent of its work force, or about 8,000 employees.