Meta is bolstering perks like happy hours and company swag as it pushes staff to return to office, despite its ‘year of efficiency’::The company has revived a number of employee perks, according to Bloomberg, including branded t-shirts, laundry services, and free haircuts.
Imagine having to endure a happy hour wearing your Meta t-shirt while zuck monitors your joy level through a huge camera in the corner of the room.
And the happy hours are unpaid time.
Everybody dance.
Now.
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Love unions, but hate the idea of distilling all our problems down to “capitalism”. Give it a rest.
If the shoe fits …
How dare you blame our money and resource problems on the monetary system?!? It is clearly the lazy workers fault. A company over reaching in a system the rewards the over reach?? Must be the lazy workers again. You could argue that it isn’t Capitalism but the way we implemented Capitalism. However, it is just strange to act like it isn’t involved.
Am I out of touch?
No surely one more pizza party will turn this around.
Free prison style head shave whilst your shovelling garlic bread down your gullet too!
Why would they return to the office just because you offered them drinks?
Zuck: they are dumbfucks
As an Aussie, I know a lot of people that would do something for a carton of beer.
I mean usually its a favour and not “return to the office and I give you beer” but still
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I work in tech and my workplace is also getting deeply aware that layoffs and cost cutting policies have a lasting negative impact on the happiness levels. What a fucking aha moment…
Besides, It seems like, as the economy starts to hit bottom, companies are getting aware that the fight for talent will start again soon.
Got laid off a while back for about 3 months, along with a handful of others (some of which were there 5-7 years!). When I talked to an old friend that still works there, he said the morale is basically non-existent. The company is also ranked in the bottom 5% now on Comparably 😬
So much for saving the planet
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Meta is trying to tempt employees to return to the office by bringing back perks such as happy hours and branded t-shirts.
The company has revived a number of pre-pandemic employee perks, according to Bloomberg, a change that unnamed sources said has boosted morale amongst staff after a year of layoffs and acrimony over Meta’s return-to-the-office policies.
The perks returning include branded t-shirts, happy hours, laundry services, and free haircuts.
The tech giant’s drive to cut costs and boost profitability has seen it lay off about 25% of its staff since November 2022, although Meta has recently begun to rehire some of those who lost their jobs.
The revived perks, which also include a new coffee bar and earlier dinners, are part of Meta’s renewed effort to lure staff back into the office.
Last month, Meta announced that employees would be required to work in the office at least three days a week, and warned that those who repeatedly refused to comply risked losing their jobs.
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If a free haircut makes me look like Zuckerberg, no thanks.
This dude really need to change his haircut lol he looks like he just do it himself at home.
Imagine how good it would look if he cut it at the office!
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You’d think a tech bro would realise there have been a few technological advancements in the last couple of thousand years. Including hairdressing.
Verily, one must maintain the utmost reverence when discussing our illustrious Emperor. Criticizing his haircut would be an affront to the grandeur and authority of our magnificent Meta Empire. Let us, instead, extol the virtues of Meta and the remarkable achievements of our Emperor.
That’s not hair… that’s skin for his
disguise.
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What about zuck and board members? Do they come into the office everyday?
Alright lemmings reality check time. Would you take a job offer from meta if it was in your field and the pay was good?
I did and still am.
Happy hours never went away. Swag also never went away. I don’t know if the writer here actually knows anyone or just overheard someone talking about that stuff and assumed it was new.
Covid did reduce the amount of stuff being bought. Freezer went away so ice cream went away. Less alcohol in the game rooms (though no shortage during happy hours), custodial stopped working on weekends (not too many people here anyway, just don’t leave food in your trash bin anymore). They cut a “health” allowance from 3k to 2k =(
Anyway, it’s easily the best decision I’ve ever made. I make twice my city’s median household income. The push for RTO blows (I’m convinced Lori/HR need to justify their existence). At first it was 3 days, now we just got told two specific days (happy hour days are going to rotate, RIP). There’s even a whole HRIS system in place for compliance tracking and all kinds of other wasted money/man hours that went into this. Makes no sense. They keep reference “the data” and “studies” but aren’t showing us what they’re saying. Nevermind that the C suite all got Exceeds Expectations after having to fire dozens of thousands of people (we still believe executive performance = company performance).
Things are coming back since our stock is back to starting with a 3. The only thing that pissed me off was how many laid off people’s positions were re-filled like 6 months later. It’s like the layoffs were just to get dilute the blood in the water that investors were looking for and hearing about a bunch of layoffs make rich people happy. Other than that, my team is amazing, my manager is awesome, work schedule is extremely flexible (single with 2 kids, I don’t know how I’d manage at any of my previous places I’ve worked). There’s the usual “cost saving” bullshit (although, there are honestly a LOT of areas that have been streamlined without any real detrimental effect, so kudos to that) but honestly that’s not Meta-specific. Meta just makes the news because it serves 1/3 of the planet.
Also, we make fun of Reality Labs for not being profitable and we don’t give a shit about Threads because it was made in a few months by a few people. Twitter isn’t really that hard to emulate.
Reality Labs
I don’t even know what that is.
Threads
I forgot that existed until you reminded me.
Facebook is Facebook. All these social media companies will be passe in 10 years and gone in 20 anyway.
I’ve built my life around working from home now, if that’s not a part of the offer then it’s a non-starter
Define “the pay was good”.
For what they’re known payscales say they’d pay a dev with my experience? No way in hell. It’s only slightly more than I make now, and I’d have to go back to the office and work for an evil company (though I’m in Insuretech today, so that bit might just be a lateral move…). Plus I live in a low CoL area today, so a bit more money would actually mean a substantial QoL drop.
Now if we’re talking stupid money, like $600k/year, then yeah I’d suck up going to the office and abandon my morals. Frankly anyone here who says they wouldn’t do it for any salary is kidding themselves
In my country… yes. If I get over the 3month (max allowed) testing period, then they almost cant fire me, so i’ll happy take those monies just for showing up. Of course, they dont have offices here :)
No. Remote is better for the company and for me. There’s tons of better opportunities.
Recruiters keep asking me to apply and I must’ve told them to pound sand about 3 times in the past 2 years.
Free haircut, like the haircut Zuck gets? 🤨 No. Thanks.
Wow, what an interesting technology this is!
