From Zuck’s layoff announcement: “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 person and that those relationships help us work more effectively.” #hybrid #on-site #returntooffice TC: 750k + 200k consulting
It's real sadly. And I'm remote. But there was much better productivity and coordination relative to what the team really needed when I was in person.
Joining and ramping up completely remotely is definitely hard, but people that were previously in person are fine being remote. I believe this. There could be a required few months in person, or 1-2 years for new grads, and let the rest of the people decide for themselves.
The issue is that the young people have no one to learn from if the tenured folks all get to go. The knowledge transfer is key
Very interesting that they don't fully flat out say remote is evil. And they noted switching to remote after being in person is ok. Even though I really like remote, I can't deny that claim
Doesnt this directly contradict the entire point of their meta quest products?
Be curious if this extends to other teams that aren't Engineering
I agree with Zucc It takes forever to get up to speed as remote and to coordinate vs being in person. Especially for juniors
This is such foolishness. What’s it worth being in an office when your team may be completely spread across the country? These leaders act like everyone’s in one location.
True
Read all of the note and try to read between the lines - I think it strongly implies that they're going to colocate project teams in one location. "That project team needs space, and maybe it tips its overall product group into splitting across multiple floors or multiple time zones, which now makes communication harder for everyone." As much as we may like remote work, TBH, that's how Apple does things and I think we can all agree they're probably the best company in terms of product excellence.
Change is hard and of course those that have adapted to a lifestyle of being remote will complain. But I agree with the study, especially those who are early in their careers.
In person time is crucial. I’m remote.
Yeah it’s probably horseshit lol
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I completely agree with Zuck here
Makes total sense that people who build trust and relationships with team in person before going remote are more effective than strangers that occasionally chat on zoom but the incels will riot sadly
I’ll be the first to admit it, I trust and respect my teammates that I work with in person more