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It used to be. Home office stipend was cut.

It's now hostile to seated and hybrid workers with shared everything desks (except MPK) and the looming threat of more layoffs, more Help Desk closures, microkitchen cutbacks, and shrinking meal service.

Except for lifers who just want to coast, some are eager to be laid-off as they're already looking around.

PS: Amazon corporate's idea of perks are vending machines.

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The home office stipend was cut, but there is still a home internet credit of $900/year.

Yeah sure there are plenty of issues but none of those are related to remote. It is much easier to find a remote role at Meta vs other big tech companies. In fact I just checked and a plurality of my org is remote! Obviously a big majority is in _some_ office, but people are spread out over many locations around the US/world.

MPK? https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/MPK

Menlo Park. The Sun Microsystems offices where the Facebook campus is at also used to be MPK1-MPK19.

And one can always ask security to have a quick look at the back of the sign by the street at Willow Rd & 84.

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