Meta axes thousands of roles, forcibly transfers 7,000 more
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Those spared latest Meta job cuts forcibly reassigned to AI roles
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Meta's massive role reshuffle begins today, with thousands of staff being transferred to AI-focused teams and their managers reportedly laid off.
The tech giant is reassigning 7,000 workers to AI projects, eliminating around 10 percent of its current workforce, and closing 6,000 open positions, according to Reuters, which saw copies of the internal memos.
The workforce changes, the latest in a series of moves that started 2022, will affect roughly 20 percent of Meta's approximately 78,000 employees.
Janelle Gale, Meta's chief people officer, penned the memos to affected staff. Some have already begun their new AI-related duties, while the rest will be told of their fates today, she reportedly said.
"As org leaders worked on the changes, many of them incorporated AI-native design...
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