Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg leaving the Merrion Hotel in Dublin after meeting Irish politicians to discuss social media regulation, transparency in political advertising and the safety of young people and vulnerable adults. Tuesday, April 2, 2019, in Dublin, Ireland.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called 2023 the company’s “year of efficiency” and, according to a releasewhich includes “refining” Meta’s distributed labor model.
On Tuesday, Zuckerberg shared a memo with employees announcing plans to lay off 10,000 more workers and incur restructuring costs. Facebook’s parent company Meta previously laid off 11,000 employees late last year.
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As part of the announcement, Zuckerberg said internal analysis of employee performance data suggests engineers who work in person are “getting more done.” He said Meta remained committed to distributed work, but he encouraged employees to find more opportunities to work with each other in person.
“Our initial analysis of performance data suggests that engineers who joined Meta in person and then transitioned remotely or stayed in person performed better on average than people who joined remotely,” Zuckerberg said. . “This analysis also shows that early-career engineers do better on average when working face-to-face with teammates at least three days a week.”
Meta was one of the first tech companies to allow its employees to start working remotely at the start of the Covid pandemic. The company continued its flexible working policies through 2021 when it announced that workers at all levels of the company could request full-time remote work.
Meta is always promoting remote roles in 2023, and many employees have the option to work in person. But since big tech companies like Amazon suddenly announced plans to return to the office at least three days a week earlier this year, Meta may have started to reconsider.
“This requires further study, but our hypothesis is that building trust in people is even easier and that those relationships help us work more effectively,” Zuckerberg said.