--- title: Meta’s CTO told employees to stop asking for more time... description: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth publicly dismissed an employee's request to revive the company's cancelled 'Meta Days' holiday programme, saying AI productivity gains... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/meta-s-cto-told-employees-to-stop-asking-for-more-time-off-and-use-ai-gains-to-build-cooler-stuff--kcycvhtvw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Meta’s CTO told employees to stop asking for more time off and use AI gains to build “cooler stuff” instead | daily.dev og:description: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth publicly dismissed an employee's request to revive the company's cancelled 'Meta Days' holiday programme, saying AI productivity gains... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/meta-s-cto-told-employees-to-stop-asking-for-more-time-off-and-use-ai-gains-to-build-cooler-stuff--kcycvhtvw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kCycVHTVw.png og:image:alt: Meta’s CTO told employees to stop asking for more time off and use AI gains to build “cooler stuff” instead og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Meta’s CTO told employees to stop asking for more time off and use AI gains to build “cooler stuff” instead **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth publicly dismissed an employee's request to revive the company's cancelled 'Meta Days' holiday programme, saying AI productivity gains should go into building more products, not more time off. He called the question 'very dumb,' though later apologized for being too harsh. The comments come as Meta cut 8,000 jobs while committing up to $135B in AI infrastructure spending, and reflect a broader employer stance: AI efficiency gains accrue to the company as increased output, not to workers as additional leisure. The piece contextualizes this within wider debates about who benefits from AI productivity, citing contrasting views from Jeff Bezos and Morgan Stanley. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What did Meta's CTO say about using AI productivity gains for employee time off? Andrew Bosworth told employees at a July Q&A that AI gains should go into building more products, not more time off, calling a question about reviving the cancelled "Meta Days" vacation program "very dumb." He said he uses his own extra hour from AI productivity to build more for users rather than take time off, later apologizing for coming down "too hard." _Anyone weighing how AI productivity gains should be shared between companies and workers can follow this debate on daily.dev._ ### How many jobs did Meta cut in 2026 while investing in AI infrastructure? Meta cut 8,000 jobs in May while spending up to $135 billion on AI infrastructure this year. At the same time, CTO Andrew Bosworth stands to earn up to $921 million from a stock option program tied to Meta reaching a $9 trillion valuation by 2031, illustrating the gap between workforce cuts and executive AI-driven upside. _Developers tracking how AI investment reshapes hiring and layoffs at major tech companies can follow the story on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. 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