Friday, Meta employees were reportedly told thatservices like free laundry and dry cleaning had been cut, while the free dinner had been delayed – all in all, several slight reductions among a lavish slate of benefits that might be a sign of things to come for the tech industry.
Every industry with employees fortunate enough to work from home through the pandemic is seeing another paradigm shift as employers begin requiring a return to offices.
Butworkplace perks may not be what they were, as Meta employees have discovered, according to The New York Times.
For instance, their free dinner has reportedly been pushed back from 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., past the last free shuttle and keeping employees from stuffing them in to-go boxes to store in their fridge for later.
When reached for comment, Meta confirmed to CNET that the company would adjust on-campus services to “reflect our changing business needs.”
Several on-campus amenities won’t return in 2022 as the company transitions to a hybrid work model, and the company said some of those services would be covered by a wellness stipend recently expanded from $700 to $3,000.
“As we return to the office, we’ve adjusted on-site services and amenities to better reflect the needs of our hybrid workforce,” Tracy Clayton, spokesperson for Meta, told CNET over email.
“We believe people and teams will be increasingly distributed in the future, and we’re committed to building an experience that helps everyone be successful.”
Metadelayedits return to office due to theomicron COVID-19 variantcausing a spike in infections, and the company gave workers a March 14 deadline to decide whether they’d go into offices or keep working remotely as the tech industry slowly starteddeclaring their return-to-office datesin April and May.
