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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 closeparen »

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?

It's mystifying, but pretty much the entire tech leadership class has a deep conviction that taking Zoom calls on Airpods from your desk or a random corner of the office is the ideal way of working.

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

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Post by SpicyLemonZest »

no_wizard wrote: post #38
SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They most likely have a long-term plan to realign team boundaries with office locations, but want to minimize the short-term disruption for people who've moved around the Bay Area based on current working schedules.

To what end? This achieves exactly what for teams?

As the memo says, it achieves "Building a Winning Culture"; Mosseri's judgment is that "we are more creative and collaborative when we are together in-person".

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

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Post by seanmcau »

saos wrote: post #43
m_a_g wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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

No, this is not true.

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

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Post by Arainach »

jawns wrote: post #2

The headline makes it seem like every role in the company needs to switch to full-time in-office. But anyone who was hired in a remote role is exempt. This order only applies to in-office workers with assigned desks. He's basically saying that they can't expect to have a hybrid work schedule, although not so strict that they can't ever work from home.

Exempt temporarily. Very temporarily.

This is a standard boiling the frog playbook:

* No more remote hires

* Mandate non-remote employees into office (Instagram is here)

* Mandate remote employees who live within X miles of office return to office (significant chunks of Alphabet, etc. are here)

etc. - this will get ramped up and very soon

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

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Post by dexwiz »

paxys wrote: post #37
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?

Pre-covid - an entire working team is clustered in the same office and have desks near each other. People collaborate via in-person meetings, hallway conversations and general proximity. During covid - hiring is mostly remote since companies figure they don't have to be constrained by geography anymore. Employees work at home and collaborate over Zoom meetings. It's difficult at first but everyone adjusts. Productivi…

I work in a post Covid office and even with about 1 to 6 ratio of desks to rooms, along just as many fart pods, it can be a struggle to find space during peak hours.

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

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Post by johnnyanmac »

saos wrote: post #43
m_a_g wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> 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.

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

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Post by KaiserPro »

Another winning call from Mosseri

After shitcanning the london office because he wanted to move back home(800 people gone) hes now doing the RTO, because as we know all the cool kids love working in the office.

The problem with instagram is not where people are working, its the culture of piss poor direction setting and no user experience advocates. Well none that are being listened to.

There are too many grand initiatives, which are poorly run, never really prototyped and just yeeted into years long slog that fuckup repeatedly (shops I'm looking at you)

Then to get a promotion you need to move a metric somehow. That means doing stupid user hostile stuff, like instantly shoving tits in your face.

Don't get me started on the horror that was instagram for kids

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

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Post by SpicyLemonZest »

kkolybacz wrote: post #26
SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They most likely have a long-term plan to realign team boundaries with office locations, but want to minimize the short-term disruption for people who've moved around the Bay Area based on current working schedules.

Yeah, that might be the long-term idea, but most likely it will take multiple quarters of internal mobilities to achieve the final shape during which they're forcing people to come to the office and having all meetings and team interactions on a call. Suboptimal decision in my opinion.

The concern is reasonable, but I'm not sure there's a great way to make people act as though RTO is happening other than actually doing the RTO. A number of companies never said remote work was going to be long-term in the first place, yet still had employees moving around randomly based on an assumption that peak Covid norms were the new status quo.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

sunaookami wrote: post #11
RankingMember wrote: post #6

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> I don't think RTO or fewer meetings is going to reverse or even slow Instagram's slide down the enshittification chute. In my view it's been well down that chute since shortly after its acquisition by Facebook. Facebook bought them as a hedge as young people left the FB platform and, for a time, it's worked to keep users under the Meta umbrella, but as with everything Zucc touches, the end-user experience has been…

It's also impressive how fast Zuckerberg ruined Threads, does anyone still uses this? Does it still keep reverting to the algorithmic timeline?

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