Meta CTO calls perk demand ‘very dumb’; AI gains reserved for products
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth shut down an employee who asked whether AI productivity gains could revive Meta Days, the scrapped holiday perk, calling the question "very dumb" at a July townhall. He said the extra hours should go into building products, then told the staffer to ask their parents about it as a career strategy. Meta cut 8,000 jobs in May.
Meta's chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, dismissed a question about resurrecting the popular Meta Days perk as "very dumb." This came during a July Q&A session where he emphasized that spare hours saved by AI productivity gains should be directed towards building better products for Meta's billions of daily users. Bosworth argued that employees should ask their parents what they think about constantly asking their bosses for more time off.
He suggested Meta should borrow the same logic employed by Sam Altman, who has suggested AI won't shorten the work week, as people will just take on more tasks. Meta had recently cut around 8,000 jobs and committed $125 billion to AI infrastructure, while also tracking employee activities to improve its AI models.
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