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Meta is rapidly reorganizing its workers’ jobs around AI: ‘Transfers aren’t optional’
Some employees will be moved to new teams focused on AI agents and cloud infrastructure As Meta races to recenter itself around artificial intelligence , the tech giant is mandating that more than 7,000 workers must move to new teams , and it’s radically changing some employees’ jobs. The Guardian has also learned that some of these reassigned employees will shift to two new teams: one building AI cloud infrastructure and another that’s building an internal AI agent codenamed Hatch. Late last week, Meta employees received a notice that engineers had been “selected” for reassignment and would begin reporting to the cloud infrastructure and Hatch teams by the end of this week. Meta made a similar move last month when it reshuffled at least 1,000 engineers on to a new data labeling team called Applied AI, or AAI – at first giving them the option to volunteer, but later telling workers: “Tra
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Meta is rapidly reorganizing its workers’ jobs around AI: ‘Transfers aren’t optional’, Some employees will be moved to new teams focused on AI agents and cloud infrastructure As Meta races to recenter itself around artificial intelligence , the tech giant is mandating that more than 7,000 workers must move to new teams , and it’s radically changing some employees’ jobs. The Guardian has also learned that some of these reassigned employees will shift to two new teams: one building AI cloud infrastructure and another that’s building an internal AI agent codenamed Hatch. Late last week, Meta employees received a notice that engineers had been “selected” for reassignment and would begin reporting to the cloud infrastructure and Hatch teams by the end of this week. Meta made a similar move last month when it reshuffled at least 1,000 engineers on to a new data labeling team called Applied AI, or AAI – at first giving them the option to volunteer, but later telling workers: “Tra
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- Meta is rapidly reorganizing its workers’ jobs around AI: ‘Transfers aren’t optional’The Guardian - 2026-05-19T17:51:53+00:00
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