Meta's Radical AI-Driven Layoff Plan Collapsed After Staff Revolt and Poor Results

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Meta internally explored a plan called Project OT that would have cut certain teams by up to 60% and replaced them with AI agents. The strategy, conceived at a Hawaii retreat led by Mark Zuckerberg, proposed restructuring staff into small pods of three and using keystroke tracking to train AI models. The plan included two separate waves of layoffs designed to accelerate the company's shift toward AI-driven work. However, employees pushed back strongly, causing internal sentiment scores to drop from 74% to 55%. The effort ultimately fell apart after Meta's own data revealed the AI tools were not delivering the productivity gains the plan had promised.

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