“There’s been this giant submerged iceberg of blue collar workers that makes the entire thing go.”
People visit a newly unveiled logo for"Meta", the new name for Facebook's parent company, outside Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park on October 28, 2021.A few months ago, Meta’s main campus in Menlo Park, California, started to buzz again as more people began returning to the office.
Geoff is one of a fleet of contract workers that are waiting to see if they’ll still keep their jobs due to Meta’s economic pullback. These contractors, who support the highly paid tech workers by providing janitorial services, transportation and food on Meta’s sprawling campus, are in a much more economically precarious position than full-time employees, say union activists and labor experts.
“It sends shockwaves and the reality is you have such drastic work reductions [in the white-collar workforce,] and it will have a negative impact on the service workers who clean offices and provide food,”
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