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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 disgruntledphd2 »

ggm wrote: post #460
disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #434

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Nobody except Mark Zuckerberg matters for Meta. He has majority control of the board voting rights. It seems much more likely that this is driven by the fact that Facebook culture has always been very much around in-person 1:1 contacts between people. This frustrated me a lot when I was there, but it did seem to work for a relatively long time.

Boards have a finance subcommittee and review income on investments. Meta does not invest 100% of its worth inside Meta, it will have billions of dollars invested through merchant banks who in turn balance in private equity, shares, and property. The property component will be reporting risk on lower future returns if the building declines in value as an asset. His fund manager will be advising him that signals to in…

This is the man who changed the name of his company to focus on the Metaverse.

I find it very unlikely that he's listening to his bankers on strategy.

Don't get me wrong, I think the property value thing is a part of RTO, I just don't think it matters in this particular case.

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

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Post by jimkleiber »

bpt3 wrote: post #380
jimkleiber wrote: post #296

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The film industry has a lot of unions as well, including for their "above average" people (writers, actors, etc.)

I think most engineers/developers/scientists would welcome, or at least be fine with, being a member of a guild like writers and actors. Their parent poster is suggesting that a traditional US union is the way, which I personally don't agree with and don't think I am unique in that regard.

To be honest, I'm not sure I know the difference. I got invited to SAG-AFTRA after doing a TV commercial and it seemed pretty union-y to me. Not that it's inherently a bad thing, and maybe I'm wrong in that there are differences but not aware of them.

Could you say more about the differences you see between a traditional US union and a modern day guild?

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

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Post by munksbeer »

dreis_sw wrote: post #452
munksbeer wrote: post #448

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> And we all pay for it. That's a very confident statement to make. My company is very much happy with remote working. 50% of my team aren't even in the country. Most other teams are the same. I don't feel like I'm paying any price for that.

Happy to hear that it's working out well for you, but there is always a cost. The less common successful remote work becomes across the industry, the more companies like yours stand out. And remote work goes back to being a premium, highly competitive perk, like it used to be in the past. And I agree that remote work is perfectly possible with a good culture and responsible employees, but most companies don't really…

> The less common successful remote work becomes across the industry

You're presupposing your conclusion. I don't believe remote work is less successful. I think this is driven from angles such as:

* Managers who have made their career by visibility, struggling to adapt to a new normal

* A way to get rid of staff without paying severance

* Pressure from certain types of politician who have made up their mind (regardless of any evidence) that remote working is harmful

And others

It really is a shame that for once it felt like labour had something going their way, and somehow the leaders of capital have convinced us to fight each other on this, while they take it away again.

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

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Post by saos »

johnnyanmac wrote: post #57
saos wrote: post #43

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> I would love to delete the app, but Instagram has really become the norm for dating and connecting with people Really??

News to me. But I just left my 20's so maybe I'm late off the boat. I'm not installing anything Meta for any potential date. maybe Twitter but that's already pushing it.

Likewise, just left 20s. I'd be shocked if anyone I'm dating red flags me for not having social media . Well I do have Linkedin if that counts

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

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Post by pb7 »

slater wrote: post #453
pb7 wrote: post #417

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> We're back to sane times thankfully, but it will take a long time to undo the rot caused by DEI. Don't be counting your chickens too soon. Once the current clown show is voted out, we can hopefully get back to a more reality-based situation.

So that a different clown show can take over, great, cool way to run a country.

People are never going to tolerate the nonsense that followed 2020 again, mark my words.

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

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Post by saagarjha »

eastbound wrote: post #312
saagarjha wrote: post #302

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You do know there are several productive companies that are entirely remote, right?

Instagram ragequits remote working. Atlassian is a dumpster fire, they run shit engineering since about 3 years. Give me the secret sauce to being productive with remote employees. Maybe some have found it, but apparently paying above the employee ask, offering to double the salary in case of success, sending them to conferences and spending a lot of human time with them gives me the “evil employer” category on most…

I don't think I can give you answers if you look at your one employee and extrapolate from there.

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

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Post by slater »

pb7 wrote: post #465
slater wrote: post #453

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> We're back to sane times thankfully, but it will take a long time to undo the rot caused by DEI. Don't be counting your chickens too soon. Once the current clown show is voted out, we can hopefully get back to a more reality-based situation.

So that a different clown show can take over, great, cool way to run a country. People are never going to tolerate the nonsense that followed 2020 again, mark my words.

As clown shows go, the current admin will be hard to beat.

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

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Post by billy99k »

a96 wrote: post #435
billy99k wrote: post #337

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"Forcing people into working conditions in which they are uncomfortable is only going to harbour resentment towards the company and if you are in a country where workers actually have real rights you will have a hard time firing them." They are forcing them back into the office, which was pretty much the norm pre-covid. Having hard to fire employees isn't a good thing for the company or the well-being of other employ…

Being a one person company with one client is circumventing employment laws. Sensibly illegal in many countries.

Who says I only have one client? It's also one of the reasons that it's so difficult to actually start a company in many of these countries, and the economic landscape consists of large multi-national corporations and the government.

It's also not illegal (at least in the US), if you have your own LLC/company.

This kind of thinking is why I've had steady work while working remotely for many years and we see articles like this crying about companies taking away remote work.

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

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Post by bpt3 »

jimkleiber wrote: post #462
bpt3 wrote: post #380

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think most engineers/developers/scientists would welcome, or at least be fine with, being a member of a guild like writers and actors. Their parent poster is suggesting that a traditional US union is the way, which I personally don't agree with and don't think I am unique in that regard.

To be honest, I'm not sure I know the difference. I got invited to SAG-AFTRA after doing a TV commercial and it seemed pretty union-y to me. Not that it's inherently a bad thing, and maybe I'm wrong in that there are differences but not aware of them. Could you say more about the differences you see between a traditional US union and a modern day guild?

What I meant is that something like SAG-AFTRA provides some benefits and sets minimum standards for a work environment but does not limit your ability to negotiate a higher rate for your work, does not require promotion (whatever that would mean in this context) based on seniority, etc.

In the US, doctors, lawyers, and to some extent professional engineers and other licensed professions operate under a somewhat similar model in that they restrict supply of that class of labor through some sort of accreditation, apply minimum standards for the profession, and otherwise stay out of your business for the most part.

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