“Meta does not have any additional expansion plans at this time,” company spokeswoman Jamila Reeves said in an email in reference to New York City.Īnyone who follows presidential politics knows that those last three words - “at this time” - are a large enough caveat to drive a truck through. Given its chieftain’s comments, would it limit its appetite for the city’s office space, or would it continue to grow here? With almost all of its business establishment reckoning with a workforce no longer compelled to commute to the office, the comment sent a shiver down the spines of New York City’s landlords, and led to Meta becoming one of New York’s most-watched companies. In 2020, at the height of COVID, Zuckerberg said on a live-streamed feed that as many as half of his employees would work from home within a decade, according to The New York Times. Then, of course, there was the pandemic, which seemed to rush into existence trends that were already apparent to those in the know, such as the ability to do jobs on laptops ready to be plugged in anywhere, not just in the office. The move prompted a late 2021 name-change for the company, to Meta Platforms Inc., and Facebook became a mere subsidiary alongside Instagram, WhatsApp and others. The company also had to become overseer of the “metaverse,” that virtual world that exists only in computers and computer-like instruments such as smartphones, virtual reality headsets, and devices yet to be made commercially available. No, Zuckerberg decided that wasn’t enough. SEE ALSO: Sunday Summary: LLC Bans, Brokers Fees, Congestion Pricing, Oh My!
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