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Sunday, 02 April 2023 04:00 PM
I stopped meta announced remote work opportunities for its new vacancies, at least for now as reported by CNBC.
Insider sources told Insider that hiring managers have been told they can no longer post new positions stating the possibility of remote or out-of-office work.
The move is another sign that the company is drifting away from its previously friendly approach to remote work. Other tech companies — including Amazon, Apple and Snap — already have mandates to return to the office, despite anger among some employees.
While Meta is still in a broad hiring freeze that began last year and is set to lay off another 10,000 employees soon, it has hired some new employees in recent months.
The company now has about 300 open positions globally, according to its careers site. Another source said that some parts of the company are already preparing to reassign jobs considered “critical” after the end of the new round of layoffs.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged this in a recent note to employees, saying that although the company is “committed to distributed work,” some internal analysis has shown that people hired to work remotely are less productive.
A Meta spokesperson said the discontinuation of remote jobs is “temporary” and part of the reorganization that’s happening now.