'Employees Working From Office Perform Better Than Work From Homes Ones,' Says Mark Zuckerberg

It's been five months since Meta announced layoffs of around 11,000 employees n November last year. Those job cuts were followed by a long list of tech giants joining the layoffs, including Microsoft and Google.

But now, it seems that the trouble for Meta employees certainly did not end with last year's layoffs.

Meta's Second Round Of Mass Layoffs

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As recently as this week, Meta became the first tech giant to announce a second round of mass layoffs, when it laid off another 10,000 employees.

In his letter to Meta employees, CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighted that as per the company's analysis, employees who worked from the office fared better than those who worked remotely.

While he did not specify whether the analysis will affect remote employees in the second round of layoffs, Zuckerberg said that it's easier to build trust in person and that those relationships help the company work more effectively, as per Moneycontrol report.

"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 stated in his letter.

"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. This requires further study, but our hypothesis is that it is still easier to build trust in person and that those relationships help us work more effectively."

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Zuckerberg Urges Employees To Work From Office

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Zuckerberg also urged employees to work from the office to increase efficiency. "As part of our Year of Efficiency, we¡¯re focusing on understanding this further and finding ways to make sure people build the necessary connections to work effectively. In the meantime, I encourage all of you to find more opportunities to work with your colleagues in person... In-person time helps build relationships and get more done," he said.

The widely anticipated job cuts are part of a wider restructuring that will also see Meta reportedly scrap hiring plans for 5,000 openings, cancel lower-priority projects and flatten layers of middle management, Reuters reported.

"Paid To Do Fake Work"

Facebook's parent Meta has been hit with accusations from a former employee alleging that she was paid to do 'fake work.' Britney Levy, who was laid off in the company's first round of layoffs, stated that she was hired into a position where she was put into a group of individuals who were not working and that she had to fight to find work, as per Business Today.

In a video on TikTok (via Business Insider), she said that Meta was "hoarding us like Pok¨¦mon cards" and that many employees felt they were being set up to be laid off. Levy's comments come amid Meta's second round of layoffs affecting 10,000 jobs. This comes months after the company laid off 13 per cent of its workforce last year. After both rounds, Meta has effectively removed 21,000 employees from its workforce and has even removed 5,000 job openings.

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