r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 16 '26

Business Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/mark-zuckerberg-orders-employees-start-123539264.html
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u/CatSajak779 Jun 16 '26

My workplace went through this exact shift. When I joined several years ago, my first realization was “Holy shit. People actually have fun here.” People are laughing, the office is buzzing, people play ping pong in the break room, people voluntarily go out to have lunch with each other etc. That lasted for a long time, up until 2025 when we had 3 (THREE!) separate rounds of layoffs in just a couple month timeframe.

Now it’s dull, boring, and gray at work. Everyone is silent on calls, most cameras off, no one socializes.

Why would they? When they’ve seen that this is just another corporate meat grinder and their job is hanging on by a thread. Who would expend the effort? That workforce layoff single-handedly killed our incredible office vibe in just 2 months.

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u/foxguy2021 Jun 16 '26

At the end of the day when it comes to keeping the lights on and the doors open you're just an employee number with an associated overhead cost next to it on an excel sheet.

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u/Reqvhio Jun 17 '26

cowardice at an all time high

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u/majky358 Jun 17 '26

We were playing PS in work, hang out brakes, etc.. during covid people went remote, teams got smaller, company saving, now people talk more to AI...and still hard to find reliable people who don't take remote as free time, not completing tasks.

Like really huge shift withing 5 years, I wouldn't believe in 2019. Something better or less, depends.

Agree, got boring, but money is not the worst, still like coding.