Meta is rapidly reorganizing its workers' jobs around AI: Transfers aren't optional'

"Meta 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. Our work, infrastructure and our products are fundamentally changing as a result of the continued acceleration of AI, wrote Peter Hoose, vice-president of production engineering at Meta, in an internal post about the two new teams, viewed by the Guardian. The pace of what we are building is unprecedented, and these are exactly the kind of challenges that define what we do best."

"Meta is also taking away some managers' direct reports and shifting these managers into roles where they're expected to produce work more than oversee others a shift that's underway throughout Silicon Valley as companies embrace AI tools and try to flatten their management structures. This rapid-fire reorganization is stirring up discontent within Meta during an already volatile era. The new orgs showcase a shift in top level management strategy towards micro-authoritarianism, said a Meta engineer, who requested anonym"

Meta is mandating that more than 7,000 workers move to new teams as the company recenters around artificial intelligence. Some reassigned employees are being shifted to two new teams: one building AI cloud infrastructure and another building an internal AI agent codenamed Hatch. Engineers received notices that they would begin reporting to these teams by the end of the week. Meta previously reshuffled at least 1,000 engineers onto a data labeling team called Applied AI, initially offering volunteering before making transfers mandatory. Meta leadership stated that work, infrastructure, and products are fundamentally changing due to accelerating AI. Meta is also reducing some managers’ direct reports and moving managers into roles expected to produce work rather than oversee others, contributing to employee discontent.

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