A year ago they told people something different and people made decisions around that policy. Reversing course is evil and bad management.

Lets see how that will work out...

My company has a 3-day/week hybrid policy. It’s lame. Since not everyone is there on the same day, I still sit in my cube on teams chat all day. Most of the time I don’t interact with anyone for work related reasons. And as an introvert, I don’t really go out of my way to engage with people otherwise.

I show up to my work chatrooms and video calls 5 times a day. My bosses treat me like a professional adult. I get my shit done, fight fires, and communicate to my team and co-workers just fine. My morning routine involves not driving to work, because it's a goddamn waste of my time.

If you can't handle remote work, your employees will find places that can. Adapt or die!

Given how bad this company is tanking, I wouldn't be surprised if this was deliberately done to cut payroll.

Meta knows this is a dumb policy. This is just a way to lay off workers without actually firing people.

Being fully remote means Meta will not maintain desk space for such workers, who should not come to an office "more than 4 days every 2 months," Goler's memo said,

That's actually just as dumb, it means that if that remote worker comes to the Home Office they can't stay a full week. Even saying "more than 5 days every 3 months" makes more sense.

Note for non-Americans: “RTO” here means “Return To Office”. (Not Rostered Day Off)

Cool, a severance package from Facebook!

At first I thought, Jesus! Who will work for such a shitty company and then I realized people will do anything for money. Capahtahleezum baby!!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

"As with other company policies, repeated violations may result in disciplinary action, up to and including a performance rating drop and, ultimately, termination if not addressed."

Meta first informed employees of its RTO efforts in June, saying that beginning after the Labor Day holiday, people who were hired to work in an office should return for at least part of the week.

In a March memo announcing a layoff of 10,000 employees, he wrote that a company analysis found that "engineers earlier in their career perform better on average when they work in-person with teammates at least three days a week."

Being fully remote means Meta will not maintain desk space for such workers, who should not come to an office "more than 4 days every 2 months," Goler's memo said,

From: Lori GolerDistributed work updatesTL;DR:• We shared in June that beginning September 5, people assigned to an office will need to spend at least 3 days per week in person to foster healthy relationships and strong collaboration.• Managers will hold their teams accountable to the In-Person Time Policy on a monthly basis.

To help teams build predictable collaboration practices, we're asking remote workers not to visit the office more than 4 days every 2 months- unless there's a clear business reason (team onsite, required in- person meetings) or to attend Meta-sponsored events like Company All Hands, Metamate Meetups, or Hackathons.• Managers will review this monthly, subject to local law and works council requirements, and remote workers who consistently exceed the threshold will be required to transfer to an office and meet the minimum 3 days/week in-person requirement.Remote applications:• We're moving to a monthly review cycle for remote work applications by org leaders so they can fully assess and understand the impact of these requests on their organizations and sites as they implement their org-specific location strategy.

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To be fair, they may lose their jobs if they do show up to work.