According to former staff, around 100 people have already jumped ship from Microsoft to Meta alone. Meanwhile, Apple is offering generous bonuses to hold onto their workers.


Employees from Microsoft and Apple are jumping ship to affix Meta Platforms because the company sets its sights on making the Metaverse. 

According to former workers of Microsoft quoted by the Wall Street Journal, around a hundred people have ditched the school giant’s increased reality team over the past year to affix Meta Platforms. They claim that Meta has been significantly targeted on snapping up folks that have worked on Microsoft’s HoloLens increased reality (AR) headsets.

According to the WSJ, Linkedin profiles show that over 70 folks that were a part of Microsoft’s HoloLens team have left the project over the past year, with over 40 of them usurping new positions at Meta. 

Microsoft’s 1st mover advantage within the AR space makes its workers valuable assets to Meta. Microsoft declared its HoloLens project over 5 years ago in 2016, with the technology developing into one among the world’s most advanced headsets. 

Apple is attempting attempt} to counteract an worker exodus to Meta by giving profitable stock choices and bonuses value between $50,000 and $180,000, per a report by Bloomberg. In late Dec 2021, the corporate offered the bonuses to a gaggle of engineers in silicon style, hardware and a few software package operations employees. 

Facebook’s push to become Meta

Meta Platforms was formerly known as Facebook till a significant rebranding exercise in October 2021, signalling the company’s growing ambitions on the far side social media. Its computer game hardware business “Reality Labs” has been hard at add the months since, with success making a example of its computer game “haptic gloves” in mid-Nov 2021. 

facebookDespite these early successes, the centralized Meta’s tries to dominate the Metaverse has led to no shortage of criticism in the wider community, which has leaders in the crypto, NFT, blockchain and GameFi spaces. 

Some crypto leaders like Hodl Asset’s Jenny tantalum have instructed that Mark Zuckerberg shouldn’t be the one to guide Facebook into the Metaverse in any respect, given his history relating to data processing, privacy and content policies. 

“In order for him to own a tabula rasa for Meta, he should step down and he should have a brand new CEO to run it,” she same during a November interview with Cointelegraph. 

Both Microsoft and Apple have had their sights assail the Metaverse for quite a while. In early Nov. 2021, Microsoft proclaimed a slew of groups updates and upgrades to its Xbox play console, at the side of a brand new product known as “Dynamics 365 Connected spaces.” 

“The Metaverse permits us to embed computing into the important world and to introduce the important world into computing,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella same at the time. 

“What’s most important is that we are able to bring our humanity with us, and choose how we want to experience this world.”

(Keira Wright, Cointelegraph, 2022)