Meta is bringing back employee perks after this spring’s brutal rounds of mass layoffs, with the owner of Facebook and Instagram reviving happy hour, corporate swag and campus amenities like snacks, laundry services and haircuts, according to a report.

At the tech giant’s Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters — where thousands of staffers report to a 250-acre campus with 30-plus buildings — pre-pandemic perks are back now that “dozens” of the 21,000 sacked workers are being rehired and employees are required to report to the office at least three days per week, according to Bloomberg.

Dinnertimes, which on-site restaurants served late into the evening during COVID, have been moved back up to a more normal hour, 6 p.m., employees told the outlet.

Food vendors are also setting up shop again, encouraging workers to show up in person.

And with better attitudes, staffers have begun partaking in standing Thursday happy hours again.

A Meta spokesperson told Bloomberg that “dinner, happy hour and company swag never really went away, merely adjusted given the pandemic and budgets.”

Other amenities are making a grand return along with Meta’s workforce, the spokesperson said, such as stocked snack bars.

Lately, stocked fridges at Meta’s headquarters have been running out of fruit-flavored La Croix sparkling waters — evidence that the company’s workforce is in attendance and taking advantage of office perks.

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