Why would Meta have needed to either though? Or really Alphabet, Microsoft, Twitter, or a bunch of other companies? Maybe a handful more people to deal with scaling issues on products specific to pandemic needs, but the pandemic was always going to be temporary. They hired heavily in excess of just pandemic related concerns, it was more about expecting a paradigm shift. (Even now they almost all have substantially more people than before the pandemic though ,so you could argue it is less an error of type and more an error of magnitude)
NineStarPoint|3 years ago