Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs
nlpnerd
25 points
6 comments
July 14, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
hsb3
Meta and the type of people who work at Meta deserve each other.
nlpnerd
Honestly, the article title is a bit of clickbait. The main complaint is about people on medical leave being disadvantaged by the token usage as performance metric that was introduced.
newsomix9xl
This is an ROI on AI story. AI enables employers to make cases for "low performance" against those who take medical leave or "excessive" leave. Once they're identified AI can generate a report they don't send enough email, talk enough at meetings, type enough keystrokes etc. to give metrics to a preordained conclusion. Look long and hard enough and everyone will far short of cherry picked metrics in some way.