Facebook workers unveil a new brand and the title ‘Meta’ on the register entrance of Facebook headquarters on October 28, 2021 in Menlo Park, California.
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Facebook parent Meta Platforms dropped 36 spots on Glassdoor’s annual ranking of the best places to work within the U.S., falling from No. 11 to 47 in a year marked by main public relations crises.
The firm, which rebranded from Facebook final year however continues to function the social media platform by that title, has made the list for 12 years, however that is its lowest spot within the 100-company rating.
Glassdoor stated workers spoke extremely of the corporate for granting them autonomy of their work, offering intensive advantages, and giving them the prospect to work on a product with nice attain and with coworkers they loved.
But many additionally described unfavorable points like undesirable public scrutiny, lack of motion from management on platform points and questions concerning the firm’s future path.
Meta has been underneath renewed fireplace from lawmakers and the general public after a former worker leaked hundreds of pages of inside analysis about how its merchandise have an effect on customers. Last fall, the previous worker, Frances Haugen, shared the paperwork with a number of information shops, together with The Wall Street Journal, in addition to Congress, and filed complaints with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
One of the paperwork that the majority enraged many lawmakers confirmed that the corporate had carried out analysis discovering its Instagram photo-sharing platform exacerbated mental health issues for a small quantity of teen women who responded to a survey. Other paperwork revealed a system Facebook seemingly used to give special consideration to some high-profile users when it got here to content-moderation choices.
The firm has performed down these studies, however has additionally taken steps to heed lawmakers’ critiques, like pausing work on a version of Instagram for kids.
Prior to Haugen’s leaks, the corporate, like many of its social media friends, had been dealing with warmth over its resolution to droop former President Donald Trump from the platform within the wake of the Jan. 6 riot, in addition to its dealing with of Covid-19 misinformation.
Facebook has had a number of notable ups and downs on the list through the years. The firm claimed the highest spot in 2018 however slid in the following year on fallout from the Cambridge Analytica knowledge scandal.
Facebook’s ranking on the list got here on this year at 4.3 out of 5; the Glassdoor algorithm relies on opinions and scores left by workers in a 12-month interval ended October 2021.
Glassdoor ranks chipmaker Nvidia as one of the best place to work in 2022, adopted by HubSpot and Bain & Co., all with a rating of 4.6 out of 5.
Another tech firm that noticed a large drop on the list was Zoom, down to No. 100 from No. 22 final year. Its fall marks the most important drop on the list. On the plus facet, workers recognized advantages, limitless paid day without work and fervour for constructing a product throughout a interval of progress, however some perceived a unfavorable shift within the tradition throughout excessive enterprise demand and the fast-paced work atmosphere.
In all, 40 of the 100 corporations featured on the U.S. list got here from the tech sector, up from 28 the year earlier than. The list options corporations with at the very least 1,000 workers.