Facebook requires employees to come to the office at least thrice a week

Working in office is important for building trust: Zuckerberg

I think work-from-home is morally wrong: Musk

In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg was excited at the prospect of remote work even after the Covid-19 pandemic had receded. However the company has now mandated employees to work from the office. 

“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. 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 people and that those relationships help us work more effectively,” Zuckerberg mentioned in an internal email. 

Elon Musk had also had his reservations against this mode of work. In an interview with CNBC, he stated, “I think that the whole notion of work from home is a bit like the fake Marie Antoinette quote, ’Let them eat cake. It’s not just a productivity thing, I think it’s morally wrong. People should get off their goddamn moral high horse with that work-from-home bullshit. Because they’re asking everyone else to not work from home while they do. You’re gonna work from home and you’re gonna make everyone else who made your car come work in the factory?”