More than 160 shuttle drivers for Meta have been laid off due to low ridership. “It’s tough. The ripple effects continue to hit us from the massive shift to remote work.”
Protesters on Thursday urged Meta Platforms Inc. to call its Silicon Valley-based engineers and other employees back to the office, after Facebook’s parent company continued to dismiss service workers with “mass layoffs” of shuttle-bus drivers.
The spokeswoman added: “Since returning to office, we’ve adjusted on-site services and amenities, including transportation, to better reflect the needs of our hybrid workforce.” “What appears to be happening [with the tech shuttle system] is not different from what’s happening with our mass transit systems, where ridership is still down,” said Rufus Jeffris, spokesman for the Bay Area Council, which counts Meta among its members. “It’s tough. The ripple effects continue to hit us from the massive shift to remote work.”
Jessica Cruz, who has driven for Meta for five years, told MarketWatch that the shuttle bus she drives from Menlo Park to San Francisco and back used to be full, with about 60 passengers. Nowadays, she can have as few as seven or eight passengers to a maximum of about 25 passengers. “I’m hoping that [Meta Chief Executive] Mark Zuckerberg will see this and encourage more of his workers to go into the office,” Murphy said.The looming driver layoffs at Meta follow about 40 inter-campus driver job cuts earlier this year at the company, and janitorial staff cuts last month. But some janitors got their jobs back after a Bay Area-wide janitors’ strike earlier this month, so the drivers and their union are looking to that for hope.
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