Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta Platforms, arrived at federal court in San Jose, California on December 20, 2022.
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Meta’s return-to-office mandate went into effect on Tuesday, requiring employees to work from the company’s physical locations at least three days a week.
The company started notifying employees about this change in June, but it will not affect Meta’s current remote workers. However, employees assigned to an office will need to follow these rules starting this week.
“We believe that distributed work will continue to be important in the future, especially as our technology improves,” said a Meta spokesperson in a statement to CNBC. “In the short term, our focus on in-person work is meant to provide a strong and valuable experience for employees who choose to work from the office. We are being deliberate and thoughtful about where we invest in remote work.”
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, initially extended its remote work policy to all full-time employees in June 2021. During the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg realized that “good work can be done anywhere,” and he became even more optimistic about the possibility of remote work at scale as technology improved, particularly with remote video presence and virtual reality.
However, since then, other tech giants like Amazon and Google’s parent company Alphabet have reversed their previous remote work policies, requiring employees to return to physical offices at least three days a week or face potential consequences. In some cases, Amazon employees have been asked to relocate to different states, and some have chosen to quit rather than comply with these demands.
As part of Meta’s “Year of Efficiency,” Zuckerberg hinted in a blog post in March that the company would update its policy after an internal analysis showed that engineers who work in person tend to be more productive. He stated, “Our early analysis of performance data suggests that engineers who either joined Meta in person or transferred from in-person to remote performed better on average compared to those who joined remotely. This analysis also indicates that early-career engineers perform better on average when they work in person with teammates at least three days a week.”
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