Yeah, most of this article is pretty unsubstantiated. Meta isn’t paying a 40% premium for open offices, almost every other tech company has a similar floor plan

Yeah, most of this article is pretty unsubstantiated. Meta isn’t paying a 40% premium for open offices, almost every other tech company has a similar floor plan. And pre—Covid the offices were much more than 30% utilized, I’m guessing that figure comes from the percent of people actually at their desks at any given time. Which ties into my last remark- even the largest building at Meta isn’t an 8 acre field of open offices. There are tons of conference rooms, cafes, 1-2 person rooms, open spaces and other rooms to break up the space and provide opportunities for collaboration. It’s not as nice as a private office but better then some other companies I’ve seen post-Covid, where they’ve minimized their footprint to the extent that you can’t find an open desk or conference room when another team is having an on-site. I’m not sure whether this is an intentional misrepresentation of facts or just a complete lack of fact-checking but I was pretty disappointed in this article.