Meta’s CTO told employees to stop asking for more time off and use AI gains to build “cooler stuff” instead

Meta’s chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth told employees at a July Q&A that AI productivity gains should be used to build more products, not to take more time off. An employee had asked whether the gains could be channelled into reviving “Meta Days,” a cancelled holiday programme that gave staff a few extra days off. […] This story continues at The Next Web

Related evidence

These records share source-supplied organisations, an exact publisher byline, automatic topics or regions. The reason is shown on every link; related does not mean supporting, agreeing with or verifying this record.

How to cite this record

ethics.ai (8 August 2026), “Meta’s CTO told employees to stop asking for more time off and use AI gains to build “cooler stuff” instead,” evidence record 17871, https://ethics.ai/record/17871 (originally published by The Next Web AI).

Use and limitations

This page is a stable index and citation surface for a source record. ethics.ai did not author the underlying report and has not independently verified every claim. Automatic topics may be imperfect. For consequential use, quote and cite the original publisher.