Meta planned to cut some teams by 60% and replace the work with AI

Meta spent the first half of this year planning to replace much of the work its employees do with AI agents, then abandoned the most aggressive part of the plan when the technology did not deliver. Meta code-named the scheme Project OT, short for Organization Transformation. It explored cutting the size of many teams by as much as 60%.

Katie Paul reported the plan for Reuters, working from scores of internal documents, posts and recordings, and interviews with more than 20 people with knowledge of the company.

Mark Zuckerberg and his senior team hatched it at his Hawaii compound in January. AI would take over daily work performed by thousands of employees. Smaller cadres of what one planning document called “talent-dense” staff would supervise the virtual workers.

Two waves, one cancelled

The plan ran in two stages. A first purge would come in May, and a second shake-up in...

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