How Zuckerberg’s plan to replace Meta staff with AI unravelled - The Globe and Mail
How Zuckerberg’s plan to replace Meta staff with AI unravelled - The Globe and Mail
摘要: How Zuckerberg’s plan to replace Meta staff with AI unravelled
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How Zuckerberg’s plan to replace Meta staff with AI unravelled
Katie Paul
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Mark Zuckerberg wears his company's Ray-Ban Display glasses at the Meta Connect event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., in September, 2025.
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In January, Meta
CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his top lieutenants gathered for their annual leadership retreat at his Hawaii compound. There they hatched a radical plan to reimagine work at the social-media giant in the age of
artificial intelligence
.
Code-named Project OT – short for Organization Transformation – the plan envisioned an “AI native” future for the owner of Facebook and Instagram. AI would take over much of the daily work performed by thousands of human employees. Virtual workers would be overseen inside Meta by smaller, “talent-dense” cadres of human staffers, according to one internal planning document reviewed by Reuters and three people familiar with the project.
In scenario-planning exercises, two of these people said, executives explored slashing the size of many teams across Meta by as much as 60 per cent. Some employees would be offered roles in new units, while others would be laid off as part of a culling that one human-resources executive projected would be as big as or bigger than the company’s cuts of around 25 per cent three years ago, according to another internal document.
The restructuring would be carried out in two “waves,” beginning with a first purge in May and followed by another shakeup in November, internal planning documents seen by Reuters showed. Layoffs would be supplemented with the closing of open positions and pushing people out who Meta believed were poor performers.
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These and other details of the plan, inclu