Zuckerberg is surrounded by yes men/women. That's the only explanation I can think of. I watched a few of their videos. The video with him talking about Zoom integration with Meta and splitting off in groups with avatars, etc. Does anyone really want to work like this?? The entire benefit of remote work is that I don't have to deal with this BS. Please stop trying to force these weird extroverted fetishes like avatar huddle groups and awkward virtual whiteboarding sessions onto remote work. We have 2d whiteboarding apps that already work!
The overall bland soulless corporateness of it all is creeping me the fuck out. These presenters are all 100% dead inside.
Skipping the commute, longer in bed, home cooking, and not having to share a toilet with the phantom sprayer - there are other benefits to remote work.
But it's like Putin bombing the people he needs to convince to join him while grinding the youth out of those who had already joined: how frustrating it must be for both people's advisers to tell them to stop throwing good money after bad and frigging pivot away before all that remain are ashes and a footnote in some biography.
I watched a bit of the conference and they may start to pivot. They were talking about how whatever it is they were building is going to have browser integration.
I’m hoping this is just an expensive example of the Sunk Cost Fallacy because otherwise it’s perplexing and eerie.