Meta CTO Flags Employee Morale Concerns After Recent Layoffs: Report

Mark Zuckerberg admitted Meta made 'mistakes' earlier this week, and now his CTO has confirmed that the 'we're sorry' tour has reached its logical destination: employee morale is among the worst in 20 years. Andrew Bosworth's memo, obtained by Wired, is a masterpiece of corporate euphemism — 'morale is among the lowest we've seen in our 20-year history.' Twenty years! Imagine the data set behind that finding — all those free lunches, on-site laundry, and fish tanks. And still, the C-suite is surprised that turning your workforce into a revolving door for AI replacements might dampen spirits.

Bosworth's waltz comes hot on the heels of Zuck's own mea culpa about the 'workforce transformation not being handled perfectly.' Perfectly? They've turned 'restructuring around AI' into a euphemism for 'we don't need you anymore,' and now they're shocked — shocked! — that the survivors are sulking. The memo is a textbook example of 'we value our employees' while treating them as fungible tokens on a P&L spreadsheet. One wonders if the AI will eventually write its own morale-boosting memos, which will be cheerfully ignored.

The real kicker? All this 'AI-first' strategy isn't exactly yielding productivity miracles — earlier reports from other tech giants show negligible gains. So Meta is bleeding talent, tanking morale, and betting the farm on a technology that hasn't paid off yet. But sure, let's keep restructuring. Perhaps the next internal survey will ask about 'existential dread' alongside 'engagement.' At least we'll have a new low to benchmark against next quarter.