Most startups with $73 million in funding would spend some of it on making sure their workers have all the usual trappings of a well-resourced office. But Meron Gribetz, founder and CEO of Meta, is planning to strip his employees’ desks bare and make them get by without computer monitors.
Meta’s staff will instead be forced to manage their e-mail and other tasks using the company’s augmented reality glasses. Gribetz has pledged to make the switch by March 2017 to prove out his thesis that switching from flat windows on a screen to 3-D objects that float around you in space lets you get more done—once you’ve gotten used to a more futuristic way of working.
