The company has been encouraging people to return to the California headquarters in recent months, pointing to an early analysis that suggested early-career engineers who joined in person performed better than those working remotely. In an all-hands meeting earlier this month, he told employees that while the company plans to "continue to support remote work," it would analyze performance data and potentially update the policy. The uncertainty has left people feeling vulnerable and created a sense of paralysis in certain areas of the company, Meta employees told the publication