Meta employee upset as Facebook parent company ends laundry perk


Aside from complaints about restrictions on free dinners, downturns in the market leading to a US$200,000 (RM841,600) reduction in his TC and cut ‘childcare reimbursements’, the poster lamented the loss of laundry services provided by Meta. — Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash

The return-to-office push across Silicon Valley is really, really taking a toll on some tech workers.

An engineer for Meta, Facebook’s parent company, with a self-reported total compensation – or TC, which includes salary, stock options and other benefits – of US$850,000 (RM3.57mil) took to the anonymous job forum Blind to complain about the perks, or lack thereof, that awaited their return to the office.

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