I think the reality here is far more nuanced… 1. The unmentioned reality is that they almost doubled in size during the WFH time. Facebook was known for hiring

I think the reality here is far more nuanced… 1. The unmentioned reality is that they almost doubled in size during the WFH time. Facebook was known for hiring absolutely top talent years ago. You can’t expand indefinitely without “diluting” that top talent (same with Google fwiw). They can still be great workers, and I’m not intending to malign anyone but the top 1% of workers is different quality then top 10%. This quality affect is likely compounded by their declining reputation, making recruitment harder. I think this is something cultural that needs to be considered. 3. Younger employees perform worse than more tenured employees. WFH-only employees probably skew younger (in age and tenure). In my experience, the older you are the more likely it is you’ve worked in office the last few years even if your team doesn’t. 2. WFH may genuinely be less productive in the long run. We didn’t see an affect throughout 2020 because the world was on fire and we were all used to our office-mates already. As more new people onboard, and they don’t build the same relationships with coworkers, something could slowly be lost. When I changed jobs in 2022, my new team had known each other pre-pandemic. They worked like a well oiled machine and I was just in the background trying to help. I was far less productive, despite a welcoming “onboarding” process. WFH can be far less productive, not because remote is intrinsically worse but because it’s harder to do right at scale. Or it could just be worse, but the outcome is the same if the company can’t successfully manage it. 4. 1k of Silicon Valley’s top talent is not the same as a 100k person multinational company. The high income-per-employee world of making an app and throwing a few ads on it may be over. The world is more complicated and regulated. You need audit logs and you need AB testing and you need failovers and legal review and all sorts of things that make a big company slower than a startup. Measuring “productivity” the same way doesn’t work. 5. It can’t be forgotten that this is a post from a company about bad news where someone needs to be blamed. The blame is WFH and middle management. They need to make up something they can fix.