'Get more done' | Meta hints at end of WFH, but office ultimatums could push staff to the exit door

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has suggested the company could scrap its work-from-home policies, after data revealed that the firm’s in-office employees were outperforming their remote counterparts.

Zuckerberg announced last week that another 10,000 employees would be cut from the workforce, the latest in a long line of layoffs that have plagued the tech sector in recent weeks, following the end of the pandemic growth boom.

In a message to workers addressing the job cuts, Zuckerberg also spoke at length about the need for ‘a year of efficiency’ and more 'in-person time’ across the company, suggesting that those working from the “get more done”.

“Our early analysis of performance data suggests that engineers who either joined Meta in-person and then transferred to remote or remained in-person performed better on average than people who joined remotely" Zuckerberg wrote to employees, adding: “This analysis also shows that engineers earlier in their career perform better on average when they work in-person with teammates at least three days a week.”