Sources say concerns over Mark Zuckerberg's efficiency drive, layoffs, Meta's absentee leadership, and focus on the metaverse have devastated employee morale
Workers at Facebook's parent have been increasingly alarmed by job cuts and the company's direction. Mastodon: @profcarroll@federate.social . Tweets: @om , @chrismichel , @shiraovide , @matthewstoller , @carlquintanilla , @kantrowitz , @ranimolla , and @carolmassar Mastodon: David Carroll / @profcarroll@federate.social : Morale is tanking at Zuck's empire due to a vacuum of leadership, a miscalculated bet on VR, and the downward pressures of a harmful business model against a sentiment that like Twitter, these social media companies are in a death spiral imposed by their own egomaniacal executives. … Tweets: @om : My takeaway from this article— the era of mollycoddling is over at big tech. https://twitter.com/... Christopher Michel / @chrismichel : Seriously Facebook, get it together. https://www.nytimes.com/... Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : Want a symbol of Big Tech being corporate America conventional? Facebook hired a consulting firm to conduct “workplace reviews.” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller : “Last year, Meta ended its free laundry service for employees and pushed dinner service later into the evening — a way to cut down on workers' loading up free food to take home.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla : “.. They're saying it's ‘Hunger Games’ meets ‘Lord of the Flies,’ where everyone is trying to prove their worth to management.” @nytimes $META https://www.nytimes.com/... Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : Meta's top executives are spread across the globe https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Rani Molla / @ranimolla : Shot. Chaser. Also remember the return to the office doesn't apply equally. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Carol Massar / @carolmassar : “They're saying it's ‘Hunger Games’ meets ‘Lord of the Flies,’ where everyone is trying to prove their worth to management.” via @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/...