Meta’s New AI Boss: Your Lazy Co-Worker Pixels Your Review

KEY POINTS

•Meta announced that starting 2026, employee performance reviews will directly assess AI-driven impact, turning AI use into a core expectation.
•Janelle Gale, Meta’s head of people, communicated this shift via an internal memo obtained by Business Insider.
•The company launched an internal game called 'Level Up' earlier this year to incentivize AI adoption among staff.
•An internal AI assistant named Metamate, plus Google’s Gemini, will help employees write their performance reviews starting December 8, 2025.

Starting in 2026, Meta is turning AI into your performance sheriff, rewarding employees actually bothering to use artificial intelligence to earn brownie points. Janelle Gale, the head of people, nervously announced this in a memo last Thursday—because nothing says motivation like an internal memo seen by Business Insider. Until then, 2025’s reviews won’t count AI usage, but slap that AI brag in your self-review or perish in obscurity. Meta’s even rolling out an ‘AI Performance Assistant,’ launching December 8, to help people who suddenly can’t write about themselves without a robot’s help. They even made an AI-powered game called “Level Up” to gamify climbing corporate misery. Given all this zealotry, it’s clear: substituting your laziness with AI is Meta's new way to pretend innovation is practical.

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Meta’s corporate overlords now demand your soul be measured by how well you beg AI to do your job, or how good your robot friend is at writing about your generosity.

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