• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    I don’t understand how Facebook has so many employees. What do they do, what does their standard day look like.

    If I don’t show up to my job there’s loads of tasks that wouldn’t get done but Facebook is a website, it can’t honestly need so many employees especially when they never really change anything.

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      Meetings and meetings about how to enshittificate more (example: premium subscription for WhatsApp is now already in A/B testing phase) and find a way to skirt laws and regulations

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      I don’t mean this in a way that suggests Facebook is culturally important and good in any fashion, but Facebook does a LOT of different things and in fact is a multitude of websites and features in a trench coat. Whether they are bloated with employees or not, it makes perfect sense for Facebook to have a metric ton of employees. Also it’s not just Facebook, it’s Meta as a company so there are plenty of people working there who have nothing to do with the website.

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        Right that’s why I mean that what does the average Facebook employee do when they get in in the morning?

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          the same as any other employee at any other tech or other company. mostly emails and meetings. a few hours of actual work.