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Instagram will require U.S.-based employees to work five days a week in an office, Meta confirmed on Monday.
The new return-to-office policy will take effect on Feb. 2 and is intended to foster a more creative and collaborative working environment, according to a report by the Sources newsletter that cited an employee memo by Instagram chief Adam Mosseri.
The report also noted that Mosseri aims to reduce the number of meetings at the photo-sharing unit and wants employees to debut more product prototypes instead of decks, which refers to formal written memos and related documentation.
A Meta spokesperson told CNBC that the new RTO policy only applies to Instagram and not to the company’s other family of apps, like Facebook and WhatsApp.
Meta instituted a return-to-office mandate in September 2023, calling on employees across its family of apps to work at least three days a week from a physical office, similar to other policies at the time by companies like Amazon and Google-parent Alphabet.
More recently, tech companies and other firms have begun requiring employees to work five days out of the week from an office, which executives have generally characterized as a way to remove organizational layers and improve collaboration in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic.
In January 2025, Amazon put in place its five-day-a-week work mandate. Other companies have also made the back-to-office push, including AT&T, Boeing and Dell Technologies.
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