Bosworth called the AI reorganization 'atrocious' as roughly 8,000 employees were cut in May, leaving remaining staff grappling with surveillance concerns and job insecurity.
Meta’s chief technology officer just said something you almost never hear from a C-suite executive at a trillion-dollar company: morale is basically in the gutter.
Andrew “Boz” Bosworth disclosed during an internal chat on June 2 that employee sentiment at Meta is near the lowest it has been in the company’s roughly two-decade existence. The only time it was worse, according to Bosworth, was during the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a period when Meta was being publicly pilloried for enabling the harvesting of millions of users’ personal data.
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In May, Meta cut approximately 8,000 employees, roughly 10% of its global workforce, as part of an aggressive restructuring designed to funnel resources toward artificial intelligence.
Bosworth himself described the AI reorganization as “atrocious” in internal communications.
Reports suggest that remaining staff are dealing with heightened surveillance concerns and persistent anxiety about job security.
Bosworth acknowledged the damage and communicated a commitment to improve the workplace through better communication, enhanced stability, and the restoration of certain employee perks.
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The Cambridge Analytica comparison is telling. That crisis was external: a data privacy scandal that invited regulatory scrutiny and public outrage. This time, the wound is self-inflicted. Meta chose to reorganize aggressively, and the internal fallout has been severe enough for the CTO to acknowledge it in terms usually reserved for existential threats.
Meta has not responded publicly to reports about the internal unrest or Bosworth’s comments about morale.
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