Meta CTO: Company morale is ‘probably one of the worst it’s ever been’ after layoffs

Last month, Meta laid off 10% of its workforce to counter AI spending, and reassigned another 10% of staffers to a mandatory AI teams to train its models. Now, the company’s chief technology officer, Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, said that morale at Meta is “probably one of the worst it’s ever been.” According to Business Insider, during a June 2 internal meeting called “Tuesdays with Boz,” Bosworth said morale is “maybe not the worst it’s ever been in 20 years here, but it’s probably up there. It’s definitely up there.” “I can think Cambridge Analytica was probably the worst,” Bosworth added, referring to the 2010s political scandal when up to 87 million Facebook users’ data was used to target voters without their consent. Meta declined to provide further comment to Fast Company. Aside from the layoffs, employee dissatisfaction with Meta has grown for other reasons in the last few months. In April, the company faced backlash for using mouse-tracking software to collect employee data that would train its AI models. Staffers pushed back by creating an online petition and posting flyers across U.S. offices encouraging Meta employees to sign. At the same time, Meta plans to spend up to $145 billion this year on AI infrastructure. Fast Company previously reported that Meta employees were venting about AI and layoffs on Blind. According to a report from the anonymous workplace forum, posts containing negative sentiment about AI at Meta had grown to 83% since late 2025—a roughly 300% jump since 2024, when 20% of posts on the site about AI at Meta were negative. “Meta is dead and depressing,” one post on the platform said after the company’s layoff announcements; “They do not care about the employees anymore and all they care about is AI,” another post read. In April, Meta reported $56.31 billion in revenue— a 33% year-over-year increase—and nearly $26.8 billion in profit for the first three months of the year. Employees, on the other hand, have had their stock