Adam Mosseri Orders Five-Day Office Return as Instagram Resets Work Culture

Instagram Orders Full-Time RTO, Breaking From Meta's Hybrid Policy

NBCUniversal is requiring hybrid employees to return to the office four days per week beginning January 5, 2026.

Instagram orders staff back to the office full-time as Mosseri pushes for ‘creative and collaborative’ culture

Instagram will require its workforce to return to the office five days a week from early next year, becoming the latest major tech company to crack down on remote work. In an internal memo titled “Building a Winning Culture in 2026”, Instagram boss Adam Mosseri told employees that full-time office attendance would be mandatory from 2 February 2026 for US-based staff. He argued that teams in the company’s New York office were already benefiting f…

Adam Mosseri orders five-day office return as Instagram resets work culture

Instagram will require its U.S.-based employees to return to the office five days a week starting 2 February, according to a companywide memo from CEO Adam Mosseri, first reported by Business Insider and later confirmed by the company. The mandate will not immediately apply to the platform’s New York City workforce due to space limitations, and employees already classified as remote will remain exempt. In the memo, Mosseri said the move was inte…