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Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026

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Re: Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026

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Post by Marsymars »

m_a_g wrote: post #29
fHr wrote: post #20

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The comment initially confused me, but after reading it twice, I completely agree with you. I would love to delete the app, but Instagram has really become the norm for dating and connecting with people. The opportunity cost of not using it in your 20s is significant. I hope to delete it once I’m fully settled, but that might not happen anytime soon given the modern dating culture. Sometimes, I wish I could live like…

By some irony, I only created an instagram account so that I could get some cookies to pass to yt-dlp to download some videos from a wedding shoot my wife and I did.

Re: Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026

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Post by venturecruelty »

VirusNewbie wrote: post #197
venturecruelty wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because there's a five-letter scare word you're not allowed to say that would be required for tech workers to have any power over their managers, but that sort of collective action is dead on arrival in the current milieu. If you don't want to go back into the office, you have the power to enforce that, but you have to like... work together.

no one wants to work at shops that actually have unions compared to other places. it's just silly to actually suggest it makes things better.

Yeah, speak for yourself. I'd love to work at a place where I can't be fired because my manager had a bad day and I didn't move the right Jira tickets around to his satisfaction, where I'm treated like a human being in stead of fungible cattle. I also don't want to go back into an office. Ever. But if people actually want to affect change at their workplace, instead of just kvetching, that's basically the only way to do it, short of praying to Money Jesus for another ZIRP boom like the 2010s (I'm not a praying man, but I wouldn't hold my breath).

I'm just saying, if workers want control over their working conditions, they have to recognize the power they have. It's up to them if they decide to wield it. You don't have to, and that's fine! Enjoy your long Bay Area commute.

Re: Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026

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Post by Marsymars »

projektfu wrote: post #121
dhussoe wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My relationship is quite long-term, it can almost get its learner's permit, and we use Instagram all the time to, like, share cute animal videos from the Explore/Reels screens to each other, share stories to our friends of whatever we're doing together, or not together, and see our friends' stories. idk if your partner is jealous of you using one of the top five social networking apps in the world that seems a little…

As long as you stay on a happy path, it's only like 5% thirst traps. But many people don't like it when those things are popping up in their SO's feed, so Instagram isn't good for those relationships. I avoid it now mainly because I don't need infinite scrolling of anything. But a side benefit is that it can't provoke any jealousy.

> As long as you stay on a happy path, it's only like 5% thirst traps.

I’m an infrequent facebook user, but every couple months I’ll visit the website for something on fb marketplace or an event I’ve been invited to and 100% of the reels that are shoved at me are softcore pornography. My only interaction with them has been to click the “hide this item” (or whatever it’s called) on every reel I’ve ever seen.

Re: Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026

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Post by rubenvanwyk »

makingstuffs wrote: post #194

Reading all of these takes stating WFH leads to poor productivity simply doesn’t make sense to me. If your employees cannot be trusted to fulfil their responsibilities (whether in an office, their home or a tent in a woodland) that is not a geographical issue. It is a mentality issue and you are always going to face productivity issue from that employee regardless of from where they work. I’ve been told time and time…

The core issue is like you said - responsibility.

Re: Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026

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Post by whatever1 »

Folks it’s very simple. They want to reduce labor for free.

Why? Because no company can afford the bills for LLM infra.

These companies are spending 100s of billions on building infra. Most countries have less GDP than this. The numbers are insane!

And Nvidia demands payments in cash today. Not amortized in 5 years. Every employee slashed is extra compute the hyperscalers can buy today.

Re: Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026

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Post by kaliqt »

makingstuffs wrote: post #194

Reading all of these takes stating WFH leads to poor productivity simply doesn’t make sense to me. If your employees cannot be trusted to fulfil their responsibilities (whether in an office, their home or a tent in a woodland) that is not a geographical issue. It is a mentality issue and you are always going to face productivity issue from that employee regardless of from where they work. I’ve been told time and time…

As Office Space says: it is a question of motivation.

If you care, it'll get done. If you don't, you'll find a way to slack off, even if you're at the office.

Re: Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026

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Post by alsetmusic »

rubenvanwyk wrote: post #204
makingstuffs wrote: post #194

Reading all of these takes stating WFH leads to poor productivity simply doesn’t make sense to me. If your employees cannot be trusted to fulfil their responsibilities (whether in an office, their home or a tent in a woodland) that is not a geographical issue. It is a mentality issue and you are always going to face productivity issue from that employee regardless of from where they work. I’ve been told time and time…

The core issue is like you said - responsibility.

My previous employer ran an experiment. They had us come in two days per week for six weeks and ran the numbers. We ended up going 100% wfh with a downsized office. We been planning to double our office capacity before the pan.

I’m convinced that more than half of orgs would see similar numbers if they cared to look. I bet a bunch of the ones mandating RTO see them but do it anyway.

Re: Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026

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Post by AngryData »

VirusNewbie wrote: post #197
venturecruelty wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because there's a five-letter scare word you're not allowed to say that would be required for tech workers to have any power over their managers, but that sort of collective action is dead on arrival in the current milieu. If you don't want to go back into the office, you have the power to enforce that, but you have to like... work together.

no one wants to work at shops that actually have unions compared to other places. it's just silly to actually suggest it makes things better.

I dunno where you live but in my part of the country getting into union work is the best way to prosper and succeed as just an average person. Maybe that isn't true for tech work at the moment, but union carpenters, plumbers, HVAC, pipe fitters, arborists, linemen, auto and factory workers, all make significantly more doing union work with better and safer work conditions.

Re: Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026

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Post by tayo42 »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #64
kkolybacz wrote: post #16

"We're also offering the option to transfer from the MPK to SF office for those people whose commute would be the same or better with that change." So wait, you'll be able to switch offices even though your team might be in the second one? What's the benefit of working remote from your team but next to random, noisy people?

> What's the benefit of working remote from your team but next to random, noisy people? You'll cross-pollinate across functions. Or at least increase the chances of that happening. Not saying that's worth the tradeoff. But my time in the office often finds serendipitious value in random off-team conversations, not scheduled time.

Are the worker bees really cross polinating? I don't even get to choose what to work on, my manager and tech lead tells me what to do and all of that is approved by the director. The everything becomes an okr and it's a huge deal to pivot half way through the half. I'm told this is pretty typical.
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