Meta wants some of its employees to be managers again.<\/p>\n
The 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.<\/p>\n
AAI is a newly-launched Meta division focused on training AI models. Meta launched the group<\/a> this year and reassigned roughly 7,000 employees to it. Some of those people were previously managers and given individual contributor roles within AAI.<\/p>\n Meta declined to comment.<\/p>\n The 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<\/a> has praised lean startup-style organizations, particularly as AI takes on more work.<\/p>\n Meta 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<\/a>, a Business Insider analysis of public layoff notices found.<\/p>\n This isn’t the first time Meta has reversed course<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n Not all tech companies have fully embraced the manager-lite, small teams model. Uber, for example<\/a>, announced it was cutting half of its “micro-teams” as part of recent layoffs.<\/p>\n Have a tip? Contact Hugh via email at hlangley@businessinsider.com<\/a> or Signal at 628-228-1836. Contact Charles via email at crollet@businessinsider.com<\/a> or on Signal and WhatsApp at 628-282-2811. Contact Pranav via email at pdixit@businessinsider.com<\/a> 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta wants some of its employees to be managers again. The social media giant has been asking some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[275231,182,254871,181,507,270,10529,3426,16651,3901,357807,28501,312554,1282,14797,3590,57755,74,2394],"class_list":["post-845597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-aai","tag-ai","tag-ai-employee","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-business-insider","tag-com","tag-company","tag-email","tag-employee","tag-individual-contributor","tag-manager","tag-mass-layoff","tag-meta","tag-part","tag-people","tag-signal","tag-technology","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}