The company rapidly hired people across all departments during the pandemic. Now I wonder whether it would've been better if the company was perhaps a little understaffed, rather than going through a hiring bo-m and risking such large cuts?
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we'll, meta hired 10k in 2022... now that 11k is out, we are back to dec 2021 as it relates to headcount.
different times...
If over hiring happened only due to people working from home - then clearly WFH is not the way to go. Our jobs were never advertised as WFH to start with.
That's because the Facebook user base was assumed to remain mostly working from home/hybrid. But as we saw after Labor Day 2022, most major corporations launched a country wide campaign (attack on workers, actually) to get workers back into the office. Doing it after Labor Day, to rub in a point. Remember Labor Day is because of the work labor unions have done in the past. Given that people now spend less time at home, things didn't pan out how most envisioned.