--- title: "The New York Times: Meta's embrace of AI leaves employees in distress" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/285745329.md" description: "Meta is fully advancing its artificial intelligence strategic transformation, leading to increased pressure on employees. Multiple teams have been reorganized or eliminated due to priority adjustments, hiring has been frozen, and thousands of employees have been reassigned to AI projects. Employees complain about the surge in workload, and performance evaluation standards are also biased towards AI skills. Changes in the compensation structure have caused dissatisfaction, with the employee turnover rate in the AI department rising to 18%. Meta executives emphasize that transformation inevitably comes with growing pains, and employees face uncertainty. Analysis points out that Meta's predicament reflects the contradiction between AI strategy and employee well-being" datetime: "2026-05-08T14:55:42.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/285745329.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/285745329.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/285745329.md) --- # The New York Times: Meta's embrace of AI leaves employees in distress According to reports, Meta's full commitment to a strategic transformation focused on artificial intelligence is causing widespread discontent among employees. Over the past few months, multiple teams have been reorganized or even disbanded due to priority adjustments, and employees are under immense internal pressure. **Internal Turmoil Intensifies** Since Mark Zuckerberg announced 2026 as the "Year of AI Efficiency," Meta has frozen hiring for non-AI positions and reassigned thousands of employees to AI-related projects. One current engineer revealed that now "everyone must integrate AI into their daily work, or they will be out." The performance evaluation criteria have also changed, with the contribution weight of AI skills far exceeding that of traditional projects. **Work Pressure Soars** Employees generally complain that their workload has increased exponentially. To accelerate model iteration speed, management has demanded shorter product release cycles, forcing teams to work overtime continuously. Several employees reported receiving urgent tasks generated by internal AI tools during weekends and late at night, severely encroaching on their rest time. Additionally, resource allocation is extremely uneven—while the GenAI team has received "almost unlimited computing power," some teams maintaining core applications (such as Facebook's basic functions) face significant bottlenecks due to resource withdrawals. **Risk of Talent Loss and Management Attitude** Changes in the compensation structure have also sparked dissatisfaction. Some employees' long-term equity incentives are now tied to the company's AI business milestones rather than overall performance. With tech giants like NVIDIA competing to poach talent, internal surveys show that the employee turnover rate in the AI department has risen to about 18% over the past six months. In response to the criticism, Meta's Chief Technology Officer emphasized in an internal meeting that "transformation inevitably comes with growing pains" and warned that "employees unwilling to embrace the AI revolution may consider leaving." This tough stance has further heightened employee anxiety and uncertainty about the future. Analysts point out that Meta's predicament reflects a common contradiction: as AI becomes the primary strategic task, how to balance the well-being of human employees with the needs of corporate development is a question that the entire Silicon Valley may need time to answer ### Related Stocks - [META.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/META.US.md) - [METU.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/METU.US.md) - [FBL.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/FBL.US.md) - [METW.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/METW.US.md) - [NYT.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/NYT.US.md) - [NVDA.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/NVDA.US.md) - [NVD.DE](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/NVD.DE.md) ## Related News & Research - [Zuckerberg Just Put A Chunk of Meta's AI Bill On Wall Street's Credit Card](https://longbridge.com/en/news/285226487.md) - [Zuckerberg's 'Multi Mark' AI clone is a huge red flag for Meta shareholders](https://longbridge.com/en/news/285420965.md) - [Zuckerberg's 'Multi Mark' AI clone is a huge red flag for Meta shareholders](https://longbridge.com/en/news/285820002.md) - [AGP Franklin LLC Grows Stock Position in Meta Platforms, Inc. $META](https://longbridge.com/en/news/285165466.md) - [AI|Tech pioneer Chen Tianqiao’s MiroMind halts China services after the Manus saga](https://longbridge.com/en/news/285695149.md)