{"slug": "meta-is-asking-some-of-its-employees-to-become-managers-again-in-a-new-reorg", "title": "Meta is asking some of its employees to become managers again in a new reorg", "summary": "Meta has asked some individual contributors in its Applied AI (AAI) division to move back into management roles as part of a recent reshuffle, four people with knowledge of the matter told Business Insider, with the program described as opt-in. Meta launched AAI this year and reassigned roughly 7,000 employees to the AI model-training group, some of whom had previously been managers before being made individual contributors. The shift is a partial reversal for Meta, which eliminated about 10% of its workforce this year through layoffs that heavily targeted managers, and it follows the company's earlier decision to let some employees reassigned to AAI leave the unit.", "body_md": "Meta wants some of its employees to be managers again.\n\nThe social media giant has been asking some individual contributors in its Applied AI (AAI) division to transition back into management roles as part of a recent reshuffle, four people with knowledge of the matter told Business Insider. This program is opt-in, a person familiar said.\n\nAAI is a newly-launched Meta division focused on training AI models. [Meta launched the group](https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-task-force-workers-2026-5) this year and reassigned roughly 7,000 employees to it. Some of those people were previously managers and given individual contributor roles within AAI.\n\nMeta declined to comment.\n\nThe move marks a partial reversal for Meta, which has spent much of the past year cutting middle management and promoting smaller, flatter teams as more efficient. [Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-startup-mode-meta-small-ai-teams-2025-8) has praised lean startup-style organizations, particularly as AI takes on more work.\n\nMeta eliminated about 10% of its workforce this year through mass layoffs intended to \"run the company more efficiently\" and offset its huge AI investments. The layoffs [heavily targeted managers](https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-layoffs-managers-software-engineers-ai-spending-2026-6), a Business Insider analysis of public layoff notices found.\n\nThis isn't the first time [Meta has reversed course](https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-lets-engineers-leave-ai-training-unit-after-mass-reassignment-2026-6) on some of its internal initiatives. The company allowed some employees reassigned to AAI to leave the organization, after criticism from some employees that they had been \"drafted\" into the unit.\n\nNot all tech companies have fully embraced the manager-lite, small teams model. [Uber, for example](https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-micro-teams-middle-managers-2026-9), announced it was cutting half of its \"micro-teams\" as part of recent layoffs.\n\n*Have a tip? Contact Hugh via email at* __hlangley@businessinsider.com__ *or Signal at 628-228-1836. Contact Charles via email at* __crollet@businessinsider.com__ *or on Signal and WhatsApp at __628-282-2811__*. *Contact Pranav via email at* __pdixit@businessinsider.com__ *or on Signal at 408-905-9124. Use a personal email address, a nonwork WiFi network, and a nonwork device;* __here's our guide to sharing information securely__*.*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-is-asking-some-of-its-employees-to-become-managers-again-in-a-new-reorg", "canonical_source": "https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-asks-some-ai-employees-to-become-managers-again-2026-9", "published_at": "2026-09-10 20:39:51+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-10 21:11:17.278254+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Meta", "Applied AI", "Business Insider", "Mark Zuckerberg", "Uber"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-is-asking-some-of-its-employees-to-become-managers-again-in-a-new-reorg", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-is-asking-some-of-its-employees-to-become-managers-again-in-a-new-reorg.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-is-asking-some-of-its-employees-to-become-managers-again-in-a-new-reorg.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-is-asking-some-of-its-employees-to-become-managers-again-in-a-new-reorg.jsonld"}}