Posted on 03/23/2022 4:17:33 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
As more companies begin their return to the office, Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is becoming more remote than ever before.
The company’s management team, including Mark Zuckerberg, is scattering to locations far from its Silicon Valley headquarters in an extreme test of the limits of remote work.
Naomi Gleit, the company’s head of product and one of its longest-tenured employees, has relocated to New York. Chief Marketing Officer Alex Schultz plans to move to the U.K., and Guy Rosen, the company’s vice president of integrity, will be moving to Israel in the future, according to a company spokesman.
Meanwhile Javier Olivan, Meta’s chief growth officer, has split his time between California and Europe but is planning to spend more time abroad, the spokesman said. Meta last week said that it will be doubling its Madrid office in Mr. Olivan’s home country of Spain to add 2,000 people over the next five years.
Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, in recent months has been traveling and working remotely from locations including Hawaii, Los Angeles and Cape Cod, according to people familiar with the matter and the executive’s social-media posts. The spokesman said that Mr. Mosseri has no plans to relocate permanently.
Mr. Zuckerberg has been spending more time away from the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Zuckerberg regularly spends extended periods at his compound in Hawaii and his other homes outside the Bay Area.
“The past few years have brought new possibilities around the ways we connect and work,” said Meta spokesman Tracy Clayton. “We believe that how people work is far more important than where they work from.” He said Mr. Zuckerberg plans to spend more than half his time in California and work remotely the rest of the year.
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To protest having to interact with people via VR goggles we should choose creepy furry characters as avatars, and file complaints with HR if anyone has a problem with it.
At SpaceX Musk contemplating letting some of his workers work from Mars
These pukes need to be held responsible for many crimes and their companies broken up
Won’t matter. They can hide in the rocks all they want, but they are doomed.
Communication will be difficult.
It generally takes about 5 to 20 minutes for a radio signal to travel the distance between Mars and Earth, depending on planet positions.
Phone calls are out.
Meta == Make Everything Trump Again
The real problem with this concept occurs at the municipal level; this makes cities obsolete (if they weren’t already), simply serving as transit hubs rather than workplaces. It also makes it easier to leave the surrounding suburbs, which in my area were just starting to see the “gibsmedat resettlement program” kick into high gear; bankrupt cities had started farming out their idle gibsmedats to surrounding suburbs to provide them with a viable host to foot all of their bills for which the cities could no longer pay. If employers and employees are no longer tied to those cities or the closest suburbs, they are screwed financially - those gibsmedats will be the only ones left, and many of the normals can move farther away.
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