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studies like “The future of work: Productivity anywhere” They have come across the reasons to return to offices.
The return to face-to-face work, explains Amazonis because it motivates the culture of the company.
Meta has become a key player in the technology market.
There are employees who survived waves of layoffs at big tech corporations like Meta and will now have to return to the offices of Facebook’s parent company.
In studies as “The future of work: Productivity anywhere” The reasons why company employees would return to the office were identified and 27 percent said that it would be because of the company’s technological resources; 25 percent for living with their co-workers and 23 percent simply for routine.
“In 2021, 27 percent of respondents said that easier access to technology in the office was a reason for wanting to work on-site. The ability to meet and collaborate with colleagues in person, as well as the routines that on-site presence created, were other important factors,” he reaffirmed. Justina Alexandra Savaanalyst of Statista by presenting the previous study exclusively to subscribers of the platform.
Back to the offices
After the series of massive layoffs that have occurred in Meta, the company ordered the remaining employees to return to their offices at least three times a week.
Let’s remember that mark zuckerberg He counted at ten thousand the number of collaborators that he would lay off from his company during 2023, being the first round of these, since last November we learned of the dismissal of eleven thousand employees, for which now media such as CNN They warn that the company only has 66,000 employees, of the 87,314 collaborators who had given Facebook’s parent company a unique strength as a technology developer.
“We expect to reduce the size of our team by around 10,000 people and close around 5,000 additional open positions that we have not yet hired.
This will be difficult and there is no way around it. It will mean saying goodbye to talented and passionate colleagues who have been a part of our success. They have dedicated themselves to our mission and I am personally grateful for all their efforts. We will support people the same way we have before and treat everyone with the gratitude they deserve.”
Now with the 66 thousand employees that Facebook currently has, the company gave a new order and that is that it has summoned them to go to corporate or offices at least three times a week.
The new oren that has been given to employees forces them to abide by it as of next September, after notifications began this week of the change in the remote work policy.
“We are committed to distributed work and are confident that people can make a significant impact from both the office and home.
We are also committed to continually refining our model to foster the collaboration, relationships, and culture necessary for employees to do their best work,” they explained in part of the statement sent to Zuckerberg employees.
As Facebookother participants in the technology industry have done the same with the implementation of office work policies at least three times a week, as has happened with Google or Amazon, a company that at the beginning of 2023 announced through its CEO, Andy Jassythat the employees who had survived the mass layoffs would have to report to the offices as soon as possible, who, to justify the company’s decision, argued that face-to-face work facilitates the practice of the company’s culture both in practice and learning and strength of the same, in addition to considering that face-to-face work awakens in collaborators greater commitment, observation capacity and a better appreciation of what is communicated.
Both cases prove the new operating strategy of technology companies that return to pre-pandemic labor practices, as a strategy to recover lost ground, which has led them to carry out massive layoffs.