Zuckerberg blames remote work for inefficiency, not his failed metaverse idea
People are nervous about face-to-face return
As part of the announcement [lay off an additional 10,000 workers], Zuckerberg said that an internal analysis of employee performance data suggests that engineers who work in person “get more done.” He said Meta remains committed to distributed work, but he encouraged employees to find more opportunities to work with one another in person.
“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,” Zuckerberg said.
As Sylvia Hartmann, a business consultant for remote work, says, the last three years seem to have been erased. We passed through a real revolution in the way we work.
It's much easier for CEOs to blame others than themselves. In the case of Zuckerberg, he insisted on a completely wrong idea by investing billions in the metaverse. The area accumulated a loss of US$ 13.7 billion in 2022. Almost all of Meta's revenue still comes from advertising.
The metaverse is far from existing. Metaverse is a more advanced version of Second Life. People, at least for now, want to live the real life, not control goddamn avatars.
Zuckerberg has the merit of creating the most powerful social network of all time, Facebook, with its 2.6 billion monthly active users. No one else has come close to this. He even bought Instagram and WhatsApp and became the king of Social Networks.
But every empire in human history has collapsed. And Zuckerberg, frightened by the TikTok boom, rushed to pioneer the metaverse. It's tough to take two big shots in life. He had no idea that the most significant innovation of the 2020s must come from artificial intelligence and its chatsGPTs.
Zuckerberg forgot that at the beginning of 2020, Facebook and Instagram experienced moments of apogee thanks to the pandemic. The usage of both networks has grown exponentially. I want to remind him that the entire company operated remotely. It was not a problem that time, but a solution.
Interestingly, a lot of posts and comments about face-to-face return appeared this week in my LinkedIn feed. People are nervous. If I could sum up what I've read, we've reached a point of no return. I bring three exciting comments.
Marcos Araujo
System Analyst at Tech Centir
The IT area no longer accepts. If anyone is up for this regime, it's until they get a remote. And as there is a high shortage of professionals, we can still put our foot down and say no. And if they feel bad? We work abroad, there's no stress 😝 I know it's more difficult for other areas to do this because people usually exchange punches for a job. I'm at a company where the technology sector is practically 100% remote.
Laís Alves Silva
Customer Experience Manager | Product Manager | Product Marketing Manager
But what about command and control? And the small power syndrome, where is it? I've seen people defending the return of offices because people are using chatGPT to have multiple jobs simultaneously. And instead of thinking about how problematic this is (if it is real) and how to improve the employee's conditions so that he can dedicate himself to a single position, it is concluded that forcing him to go to the offices is what will solve it.
Khêder Henrique
Copywriter | IG @khederhenrique
That was one of the reasons I left the traditional market. I'm still firm at the anywhere office. I prefer to work from home, but writing in a cafe or co-working space is fine. I'm from SP, and none of my clients and consultants are from here. Some do not even reside in Brazil. The most important thing is that they all understand this type of work. If what matters is the quality of my projects, what difference does it make where I work on the planet?
