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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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It's called a work-life balance. I know, crazy idea.

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>Covid was fun, I get it, but that was a long time ago man.

I don't understand what you gain from trying to be super abrasive on a forum. Is it fun?

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

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And the employees most likely to quit will be ones with responsibilities that make it difficult to do the commute 5 days a week - kids to pick up from daycare, health issues to manage, a social life in the evenings, travel plans - basically the exact category that a company like Meta would want to replace with a younger, more exploitable bunch.

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There have never been "company hours" in tech. Until recently (before badge tracking became a thing) asking your manager what time you were expected to come in and leave would be met with blank stares. "We don't enforce set hours here, just get your work done". And conversely "I came to the office and worked 8 hours a day like you asked" is never going to be accepted as an excuse when you fail to meet your targets at the end of the quarter or miss a page in the middle of the night. Heck you can't even work on your own projects after hours or patent your own ideas because the knowledge in your head is company property. Simply put - they are hiring you for your skills and your output, not for warming a seat at an office for 8 hours a day. Tech companies have always treated employees like adults and expected adult behavior in return, and both sides have benefited greatly from this arrangement. Sadly it seems like the new crop of tech leadership seems adamant on making their companies more like a call center.

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

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I think its okay for there to be jobs that require you to be in a specific place, especially so if you were hired under such an arrangement originally. If there is a significant advantage for companies that are remote, then they will have a significant advantage on talent.

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

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It's called a work-life balance. I know, crazy idea.

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> Throughout hundreds-to-thousands of years of history your options have been

You might want to brush up on your anthropology a bit.

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

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It's called a work-life balance. I know, crazy idea.

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>Throughout hundreds-to-thousands of years of history ... but that was a long time ago man.

This seems like a self defeating argument.

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

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It's unfortunate there wasn't more resistance by tech employees to RTO post-covid. It seemed like one of the very, very rare solutions to the systemic problems of housing and commuting in the US. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that WFH effectively doubles or even triples your total compensation when it means (a) actually affordable housing and (b) no time/money lost to commuting, especially if you have kid…

Because these mandates coincided with a recession and the worst tech job market in a couple decades, and saying no meant you'd potentially be unemployed for a very long time.

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

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I'm thankful I was "grandfathered in" by starting a remote role pre-COVID. Honestly I wouldn't be shocked if I'm more productive in an office (due to pressure to seem busy, which correlates somewhat with amount of time actually being busy) but I overwhelmingly prefer remote work.

>Honestly I wouldn't be shocked if I'm more productive in an office (due to pressure to seem busy, which correlates somewhat with amount of time actually being busy) As a hiring manager, I appreciate the honesty and nuance. There is so much bullshit about remote work from the people doing it that it’s a little too much “doth protest”. “I get so much more work done and I cracked the code to productivity, and surely no…

>As a hiring manager ... it’s a little too much “doth protest”.

Have you considered evaluating your own beliefs with this perspective?

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

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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 initi…

> Don't get me started on the horror that was instagram for kids Please do get started. Is this an actual thing they/you were building?

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1040857033/instagram-kids-pau...

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

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It's called a work-life balance. I know, crazy idea.

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99% of the working class doesn’t have the expectation of answering a page at 2 am, or working long hours without extra pay to make a deadline.

Don’t act like that’s an apples to apples comparison

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> Covid was fun, I get it, but that was a long time ago man. I don't understand what you gain from trying to be super abrasive on a forum. Is it fun?

The "I know, crazy idea." from the parent comment is even more abrasive.
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