They're battening down the hatches at Facebook headquarters this week as the company faces a trifecta of tumult: a continuing wave of negative press coverage fueled by document leaks, a crucial earnings report Monday and a reported name change looming.

The big picture: All this is unfolding as Mark Zuckerberg tries to transform Facebook from a social network into the prime mover behind a new "metaverse" of VR- and AR-driven remote work and play, Axios' Scott Rosenberg and Sara Fischer report.

Critical stories based on internal reports leaked by whistleblower Frances Haugen continue to surface in waves following the Wall Street Journal's "Facebook Files" series that kicked it all off.

Highlights of Monday morning's onslaught:

• Documents spotlight Facebook's struggle to hang on to young users. (The Verge)
• How the "like" button causes "stress and anxiety." (The New York Times)
• How Zuckerberg protected Facebook's growth by giving in to government demands in places like Vietnam. (The Washington Post)
• How Facebook prioritizes content moderation efforts by "tiers" of countries. (The Verge)
• The company's struggle to limit human trafficking of domestic workers. (CNN)

Catch up quick:

• Friday night saw the first group of stories from the Facebook Papers consortium of two dozen news outlets, which focused on concerns by some Facebook employees that the company didn't do enough to stop planners of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
• On Sunday, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post each offered in-depth reports on Facebook researchers' and employees' concerns that their platform promotes extremism in India and their company doesn't spend enough to limit harmful content there.
• The Journal also reported Sunday on internal debates at Facebook over whether to continue to include the far-right outlet Breitbart News in Facebook's News Tab.
• "We need to steel ourselves for more bad headlines in the coming days, I'm afraid," Nick Clegg, the company's vice president of global affairs, wrote in an internal post seen by Axios' Sara Fischer.

As Facebook reports earnings after markets close Monday, Wall Street is optimistic for solid revenue and profit growth despite headwinds — particularly, Facebook's warning last month that changes to Apple's privacy rules will weigh down its results.

• That early warning could help insulate the company from a massive stock drop in after-hours trading — unlike Snapchat, whose stock fell roughly 25% last week after it conceded that Apple's changes were impacting its business.

Facebook also hosts a virtual developer conference, Connect, on Thursday, with a keynote by Zuckerberg that's expected to go deeper into the company's metaverse-building project.

• A widely reported plan to rename Facebook could surface during the earnings report or at that event.

Tech jobs are scattered across the country, but salaries vary widely by city, per a new report from Hired, Axios' Erica Pandey reports.

Why it matters: The pandemic normalized teleworking, and now workers — especially those in remote-capable tech jobs — are increasingly likely to live in one city but work for a company based in another. But that might affect compensation.

• Philly is in the bottom tier. Software engineer salaries there are "comparable to general tech job salaries in other emerging tech hubs like Austin, San Diego and Washington, D.C.," Axios Philadelphia's Taylor Allen writes.
• Chicago's average (not charted) is even lower than Philly, at $133,000. "Despite a decade of municipal efforts to build up Chicago as a Midwest Silicon Valley, local tech salaries lag behind many of the top cities in the nation," writes Axios Chicago's Monica Eng.

What to watch: 52% of tech workers surveyed by Hired said they preferred a remote-first working model. And 74% of tech workers said they'd start looking for new jobs if their salaries didn't increase or if they were denied raises in six months.

• A number of tech companies, including Reddit and Basecamp, have said they will no longer tie compensation to place, paying employees Bay Area salaries no matter where they live. Look for more tech firms to follow suit in order to stay competitive in the war for talent.

T-Mobile said on Friday that it will extend by three months its planned shutdown of Sprint's old CDMA network. It now plans to shutter the network at the end of March, rather than Jan. 1, 2022.

Why it matters: The move follows complaints by Dish Network that shutting down the network will hurt millions of its customers who own devices that still access the older network.

What they're saying: In a statement, T-Mobile says it needs to shut down the older network to create more bandwidth for 5G, but said extending support for three months won't materially affect its plans. T-Mobile added it has done its part to transition the former Sprint customers on its network.

• "Recently it's become increasingly clear that some of those partners haven’t followed through on their responsibility to help their customers through this shift," T-Mobile said on Friday.

A Dish Network spokesperson did not immediately reply to a request for comment on T-Mobile's move to delay the shutdown.

Between the lines: Dish has complained to state and federal regulators that T-Mobile's shutdown is taking place sooner than it had expected.

Amazon employees allege that they have been shortchanged pay while on leave, according to a New York Times investigation published Sunday.

Why it matters: Much of the recent spotlight on Amazon — along with Google, Apple and Facebook — has been over competition and privacy, but labor concerns have been growing across the industry as well.

The Times tells the story of workers who were dealing with a new baby or health issue and found themselves being repeatedly underpaid. The issue appears to have gotten attention only after one worker wrote to then-CEO Jeff Bezos.

• An Amazon spokeswoman told the Times that the company is still in the process of identifying affected workers and repaying them.
• Amazon, which operates a network of warehouses and runs an extensive delivery operation, has faced unionization efforts, most recently a push at a facility in Bessemer, Alabama. An initial vote there failed to garner the needed votes, but federal regulators say labor laws may have been broken.

The big picture: Labor issues have been rising on the list of concerns brought up by workers at big tech companies.

• Chelsea Glasson is suing Google over pregnancy discrimination claims at Google, Ashley Gjøvik and several former colleagues have been raising a variety of workplace issues at Apple, while Facebook has faced criticism over the conditions faced by contract content moderators.

On Tap

• Facebook kicks off a busy week of earnings reports later today, with Google, Microsoft, Twitter and AMD slated to report on Tuesday. Apple and Amazon are scheduled to deliver their reports on Thursday.
• It's also a big week of company conferences, with Facebook Connect, Adobe Max and Samsung Developer Conference all taking place later in the week. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles edition of Mobile World Congress takes place Tuesday through Thursday.

ICYMI

• Microsoft is reversing course and adding back a software feature in .Net 6 whose omission had some questioning its commitment to open source software. (The Verge)
• The New York Times' Ben Hubbard says his phone was repeatedly hacked in recent years, likely by Saudi Arabia. (New York Times)

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