The Guardian | Meta is rapidly reorganizing its workers’ jobs around AI: ‘Transfers aren’t optional’ by Varsha Bansal

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Meta is rapidly reshaping its workforce around artificial‑intelligence projects, mandating that more than 7,000 employees transfer to two newly created teams—one focused on AI‑cloud infrastructure and another building an internal AI agent called “Hatch”—and earlier moving about 1,000 engineers onto a data‑labelling group named Applied AI with “transfers aren’t optional.” The restructuring also trims managers’ direct reports, pushes many into individual contributor roles, and comes amid plans to lay off roughly 10 % of staff despite strong earnings, while a new internal monitoring tool records workers’ mouse movements, keystrokes and other computer‑use data to train Meta’s AI models. Employees, fearing an increasingly authoritarian culture, have organised petitions opposing the data‑collection practice, signed by over 500 staff, and are seeking to form a union with United Tech and Allied Workers in the UK. The moves reflect Meta’s race to catch up with rivals such as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, highlighted by a $135 billion AI‑infrastructure budget and the recent launch of its Muse Spark model, but they have sparked growing discontent and uncertainty within the company’s workforce.

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