Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

On September 18, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, recently launched the so-called desk rotation system (Hot desking) to test the new workplace experience. However, the move drew complaints from many employees who called the system "too vulgar" and "completely out of touch with reality".

Meta informs employees that most employees will no longer have a permanent place in the office, but will book their desks before arriving at the office. The move was quickly met with an outcry from employees, who opposed both the proposal itself and the "tacky and childish" reasons given by the company when it was launched.

In a large number of critical comments on the Meta intranet, employees accused the company of "an obsessive-compulsive disorder to push things in a positive direction". "No one is buying this new experience," one employee wrote. "

Tensions are rising between Meta employees and their leadership, which has made it clear that it will "slightly increase layoffs".

In June, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said: "there may be a group of people in the company who shouldn't be here." He announced at the time that he would work to "raise expectations and set more positive goals" to make the company a more stressful workplace.

This triggered a backlash from many employees, who were disappointed by the company's cancellation of many benefits, such as extra holidays granted during the outbreak, which they called "Meta Days". Employees also criticized the company's cost-cutting measures and tried to label them as "new experiences".

This is the case with the decision to require employees to share desks. "I swear to God, it's too bad to replace something that works with a terrible, ineffective substitute and force everyone to follow it," one employee wrote. "

Another employee accused Meta's leadership of being "completely out of touch with reality". Some say they understand the company's efforts to change policies and reduce costs, but call these changes "new experiences are clearly dishonest" and seem to cajole employees like children. They suggest that Meta should announce the changes directly to employees in the same way as reducing free food and office equipment.

In the post, some employees said they would eventually come to the office less often because of the extra trouble of finding and booking new desks and settling down there.

Many other companies have introduced desk sharing because mixed work arrangements mean that employees may sit at their desks only a few days a week.

Some Meta employees said that there may not be many problems with the launch of these measures, after all, many companies have taken similar measures, and the progress is relatively smooth.

During the outbreak, technology companies were at the forefront of experimenting with new ways of working: Meta was one of the first companies to close offices and one of the first to allow employees to continue to work from home in the post-epidemic period. Now many technology companies face dissatisfaction from their employees because they encourage them to return to the office.

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