Snap has told its staff they need to be in the office four days per week from February across its 30 global offices, according to a leaked internal memo.
Snap’s CEO Evan Spiegel told employees that he expects them to “sacrifice” their “individual convenience” in return for “our collective success.”
Despite sounding like a Soviet commissar rallying the troops at Stalingrad, Spiegel had to make 20 per cent of the company’s staff redundant this year as the company’s losses jumped by 400 per cent.
“I believe that spending more time together in person will help us to achieve our full potential,” wrote Spiegel in the note seen by Bloomberg.
However, some flexibility will be allowed for work-related tasks such as client meetings to count as in-office time. The company is developing an exceptions process for staff requesting to work remotely as their default.
“We’ve been working this way for so long that I’m afraid we’ve forgotten what we’ve lost — and what we could gain — by spending more time together,” Spiegel said.
“I believe that ‘default together,’ while retaining flexibility for our team members, will help us to accelerate our growth and deliver on our strategic priorities of growing our community, reaccelerating our revenue growth, and leading in AR.”
For employees in Sydney, this doesn’t seem like that bad a deal — the company threw a great summer party recently in its office overlooking the Harbour.
