The company that said it was all in on remote work is now bringing everyone back to the office.
Over the last three years, Meta went through the same cycle of remote work as an increasingly large number of other tech companies. When the pandemic began, the company found it was surprisingly productive even with everyone at home, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and othersabout the remote and distributed future of work. Zuckerberg himself estimated that in the next decade, “we could get to about half of the company working remotely permanently.
As time went on, though, executives began to discover that a lot of things about work are simply harder to do through a webcam and a chat window and began to try to bring people back to the office without upsetting those who had gotten used to having no commute and no nearby co-workers. And then, this year, the company simply stopped caring about the backlash and told everyone to come back.
, which has meant significant reorganizations and layoffs in recent months. Earlier this year, in a note to staff, Zuckerberg wrote that while the company was committed to distributed work, “our hypothesis is that it is still easier to build trust in person and that those relationships help us work more effectively.” The company found that younger and newer employees in particular performed better in an in-person environment.
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