Meta’s Instagram orders employees back to the office 5 days a week
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Instagram will require US-based employees to work in an office five days a week. Meta It was approved on Monday.
The new back-to-office policy will come into effect on February 2 and aims to foster a more creative and collaborative work environment, according to a report by . Resources newsletter He cited an employee memo from Instagram chief Adam Mosseri.
The report also said Mosseri aims to reduce the number of meetings at its photo-sharing unit and wants employees to roll out more product prototypes rather than bundles of formal written notes and related documents.
A Meta spokesperson told CNBC that the new RTO policy only applies to Instagram, not the company’s other family of apps like Facebook and WhatsApp.
Meta launched a return-to-office mandate in September 2023, urging employees across its app family to work from a physical office at least three days a week, similar to other policies from companies at the time, such as the following. Amazon and Google-parent Alphabet.
Recently, tech companies and other firms have begun requiring employees to work from the office five days a week; executives broadly described it as a way to eliminate organizational layers and improve collaboration in the wake of the Covid outbreak.
In January 2025, Amazon implemented a five-day work week requirement. Other companies have also made moves to return to the office. AT&T, Boeing’s And Dell Technologies.
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