Meta is asking some of its employees to become managers again in a new reorg

Meta wants some of its employees to be managers again.

The social media giant has been asking some individual contributors in its Applied AI (AAI) division to transition back into management roles as part of a recent reshuffle, four people with knowledge of the matter told Business Insider. This program is opt-in, a person familiar said.

AAI is a newly-launched Meta division focused on training AI models. Meta launched the group this year and reassigned roughly 7,000 employees to it. Some of those people were previously managers and given individual contributor roles within AAI.

Meta declined to comment.

The move marks a partial reversal for…