{"id":215983,"date":"2026-05-18T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/meta-reassigns-7000-employees-to-focus-on-a-i\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:40:19","slug":"meta-reassigns-7000-employees-to-focus-on-a-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/meta-reassigns-7000-employees-to-focus-on-a-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Reassigns 7,000 Employees to Focus on A.I."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/18\/technology\/meta-reassigns-7000-employees-ai.html\">Meta Reassigns 7,000 Employees to Focus on A.I.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/18\/technology\/meta-reassigns-7000-employees-ai.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/18\/technology\/meta-reassigns-7000-employees-ai.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 17:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nytimes.com\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meta announced the reclassification of 7,000 employees into four new organizations focused on artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives.<\/li>\n<li>The new organizations aim to use &#8220;A.I. native design structures&#8221; and have fewer managers per employee than other company divisions.<\/li>\n<li>The job reallocations are part of Meta\u2019s broader transformation and efficiency drive, driven by heavy investment in AI technology.<\/li>\n<li>In conjunction with these reshufflings, Meta announced layoffs affecting roughly 8,000 employees, accounting for about 10 percent of its workforce.<\/li>\n<li>Meta&#8217;s leadership has invested $115 billion to $135 billion into AI this year and is setting up data centers to compete with similar efforts by rivals such as Google, Microsoft, and others in the tech industry. <\/li>\n<li>The company has dialed back its previous efforts on the metaverse and has refocused employees on AI applications and incorporated AI use into performance reviews.<\/li>\n<li>Following the reshuffling and layoff announcements, Meta workers endured privacy concerns as the company faced backlash over the use of employee data in the training of AI tools.<\/li>\n<li>Employees affected by layoffs will receive up to 16 weeks of severance pay, with additional compensation based on their tenure with the company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Reassigns 7,000 Employees to Focus on A.I. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/18\/technology\/meta-reassigns-7000-employees-ai.html Publish Date: 2026-05-18 17:47:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/05\/18\/multimedia\/18biz-meta-ai-1-jvzc\/18biz-meta-ai-1-jvzc-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-215983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215985,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215983\/revisions\/215985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}