Meta Admits Morale Crisis for 70,000 Staff, Offers Concessions After Backlash

3 articles · Updated · Business Insider · Jun 25

Andrew Bosworth told employees morale is "probably one of the worst it's ever been," while other Meta leaders also admitted mistakes after months of internal revolt over restructuring, surveillance and forced reassignments.
1,600-plus workers signed a petition against keystroke tracking, UK employees are trying to unionize, and the backlash has included a profane meeting disruption and workers hoping to be laid off with severance.
Meta is now promising smaller manager spans, a scaled-back keystroke-monitoring program and more social budgets, and this week let reassigned employees opt out of AI-training roles after previously making many of those moves mandatory.
The unrest follows repeated cuts since 2022—11,000 jobs, then 10,000, then 3,600 in 2025, plus 8,000 more in May—and comes as Meta has delayed key AI models instead of gaining ground on OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
Management experts said acknowledging the damage is a start, but warned trust may be hard to rebuild without a direct apology from Mark Zuckerberg and a durable shift away from Meta's post-2022 hardline culture.