Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg (left) arrives at federal court in San Jose, California, USA, Tuesday, December 20, 2022.
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meta Employees will have to work in the company’s office three days a week starting in September.
The social networking giant started notifying employees of its new remote work policy on Thursday, but it doesn’t affect existing employees who work primarily remotely.
“We are committed to distributed work and believe people can have a meaningful impact both from the office and from home,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement. “We are also committed to continually refining our model to foster the collaboration, relationships and culture our employees need to do their best work.”
Technology News Publications The Information first report Meta’s latest work from home policy.
Facebook Parent Meta First Extended In June 2021, we introduced a remote work policy for all full-time employees. At the time, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company was in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic in a year where “good work can be done anywhere, especially with remote video presence and virtual reality continuing to improve.” That makes me even more optimistic that remote work at scale will be possible,” Zuckerberg said at the time.
But since then many enterprise Like Amazon and Google’s parent company Alphabet, reverse We will continue our existing remote work plans and encourage employees to return to physical offices at least three days a week.
Zuckerberg said in March alluded to He said Meta’s internal analysis found that engineers who work face-to-face “get more done,” and that Meta plans to update its policy.
“Our initial performance data analysis showed that engineers who joined Meta in person and then moved remotely or remained face-to-face performed better on average than those who joined remotely.” Zuckerberg said at the time. “The analysis also shows that an engineer early in his career performs better, on average, if he works directly with a teammate at least three days a week.”
In May, Meta ran its final round. large-scale layoffs, This is part of the company’s “Year of Efficiency,” which will result in the loss of about 21,000 employees.
