Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shifted the company's strategic focus to generative AI, proposing a vision to build 'personal superintelligence.' However, this move has rapidly deteriorated employee morale. Employees state that executives' excessive focus on AI is coming at the expense of their privacy, sense of security, and career prospects. Since Zuckerberg declared 2026 as the 'Year of AI Efficiency,' Meta has frozen hiring for non-AI positions, with thousands of employees reassigned to AI projects. Employees widely report a surge in workload, altered performance evaluation criteria prioritizing AI skills over traditional projects, and uneven resource allocation, leaving some core application teams facing bottlenecks due to diverted resources. Changes to the compensation structure have also sparked discontent, with some employees' equity incentives tied to AI business milestones. Internal surveys reveal a rising turnover rate in the AI division. In response to question (you may replace it with "doubts" if needed), Meta's CTO emphasized that 'growing pains are inevitable during transformation periods.'
