Meta Considered Cutting Some Teams by Up to 60% as AI Agent Productivity Fell Short
Internal documents reviewed by Reuters show Meta explored shrinking some teams by up to 60% under Project OT while AI agents were expected to absorb work.
Why it matters: The story provides rare evidence of a major technology company testing whether AI agents can support materially smaller teams—and encountering productivity limits.
Meta explored dramatically shrinking some internal teams as part of an attempt to redesign the company around artificial-intelligence agents, according to internal documents reviewed by Reuters. The initiative, code-named Project OT, envisioned an AI-native Meta in which autonomous systems would perform work previously handled by employees while smaller human teams supervised output. In the most aggressive scenarios, some teams could have been reduced by as much as 60%, though Meta said that figure did not represent a company-wide workforce target. Reuters reported that employee resistance and internal evidence showing AI agents were not yet producing the hoped-for productivity gains contributed to the plan losing momentum.