Instagram’s CEO wants employees back in the office five days a week, but the last thing he wants is a return to business as usual.
Chief Adam Mosseri said, starting Feb. 2, U.S. employees will need to return to the office full-time, according to a companywide memo first reported by Business Insider and whose authenticity was confirmed by a spokesperson. However, Instagram’s New York City employees won’t be forced back five days a week until the company has “alleviated the space constraints,” and remote employees are exempt from the change.
In justifying the new policy, Mosseri cited the usual corporate talking point of increasing collaboration, and said creativity will be better in-person, too.
Yet he also noted that to create a “winning culture,” the Meta subsidiary needed a shake-up of routine. Unnecessary meetings and endless PowerPoints need to be replaced with clear objectives and more prototypes, he wrote. One-on-one meetings should also be biweekly by default, he added, and employees should feel free to decline meetings that fall within their “focus blocks.”
“Every six months, we’ll cancel all recurring meetings and only re-add the ones that are absolutely necessary,” he wrote.
