Meta's co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will have met with the team in Hawaii to outline a plan that originally aimed to fire 40% of workers from certain teams and replace them with artificial intelligence agents.
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31/08/2026
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A Meta has been spending the last few months fire hundreds of workers and closing entire teams but according to the Reutersat the beginning of the year, the technological giant planned measures even more drastic than those it has taken.
Says the publication that co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his team met in Hawaii to decide the plans, which were nicknamed Project OT – or Project Organization Transformation (The Organization's Transformation Project, in Portuguese).
According to available information, Zuckerberg and his team have outlined a plan to fire workers and replace them with Artificial Intelligence agents.
Allegedly, some teams would be reduced to 60% of their original size. An internal document indicates that the technological giant was planning to fire more than the 25% workers that the company fired three years ago.
The original plan consisted of twice: a first wave of redundancies in May and another in November. However, Zuckerberg will have decided to cancel the second wave, deciding instead to cut 8,000 jobs in may, transferring another 7,000 people to teams where the goal is to develop tools and functionality of Artificial Intelligence.
It is not known what has changed in Zuckerberg's plans for the leader of Meta to change the plans, but the company said that the plan was just an exercise and that it was never assumed that it would be applied.
“ This ultimately resulted in the relocation of thousands of employees to carry out priority work in several newly created teams, as has already been publicly disclosed.”You can read in the Meta communiqué shared with Reuters. “At the end of the day, we did not implement all the scenarios of the exercise and we were never assumed to do so”.