Meta Mandates Reassignment of More Than 7,000 Employees to New AI Teams

Meta is requiring more than 7,000 employees to move to new teams focused on AI agents and cloud infrastructure. Late last week, employees received notices that engineers had been selected for reassignment and would begin reporting to the cloud infrastructure and Hatch teams by the end of this week.

The Guardian reported that some of these reassigned employees will shift to two new teams: one building AI cloud infrastructure and another building an internal AI agent codenamed Hatch. Meta made a similar move last month when it reassigned at least 1,000 engineers to a new data labelling team called Applied AI, or AAI.

The company initially gave those engineers the option to volunteer but later told workers that transfers were not optional.

Meta is reorganizing its workforce as it recenters operations around artificial intelligence. The current round of reassignments follows the April move to the Applied AI team and expands the scope of required transfers. Employees affected by the latest notices will begin reporting to the new teams by the end of this week.