In response to a wave of recruitment by Meta, OpenAI is offering a mandatory week-long vacation to its employees to boost morale. Concerns within OpenAI's leadership arise due to reports of staff working excessive hours, sometimes up to 80 weekly. Recently, Meta has recruited multiple key researchers from OpenAI, causing anxiety among its executives. Chief research officer Mark Chen expressed his frustration about the situation and assured employees that efforts to retain talent, including recalibrating compensation, are underway. OpenAI faces challenges from Meta's substantial financial incentives for new recruits.
"I feel a visceral feeling right now, as if someone has broken into our home and stolen something," Chen wrote in the document, which was leaked to Wired.
"Please trust that we haven't been sitting idly by."
"We've been more proactive than ever before, we're recalibrating [compensation], and we're scoping out creative ways to recognize and reward top talent," Chen wrote.
Meta has offered some recruits $100 million signing bonuses and year-one compensation.
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