Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has begun requiring its employees to work at the office at least three days a week, according to reports.
The company first notified employees of the plan in June, which applies to all employees who are not fully remote.
On Tuesday, the mandate went into effect.
“We believe that distributed work will continue to be important in the future, particularly as our technology improves,” a spokesperson for the company said in a statement, per CNBC. “In the near-term, our in-person focus is designed to support a strong, valuable experience for our people who have chosen to work from the office, and we’re being thoughtful and intentional about where we invest in remote work.”
This marks something of a shift from Meta’s tone during the Covid-19 pandemic when CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company learned “good work can get done anywhere, and I’m even more optimistic that remote work at scale is possible.”
In-person work would later become a tenet of the Facebook parent's “Year of Efficiency,” with Zuckerberg writing in a March blog post, “Our early analysis of performance data suggests that engineers who either joined Meta in-person and then transferred to remote or remained in-person performed better on average than people who joined remotely.”
Shares of Meta improved 1.4% Tuesday afternoon to $300.41.
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