Facebook gives employees the choice to work from home permanently
Facebook gives employees the choice to work remotely, if they want and are able to. The company will also help employees who want to move to another country.
In conversation with news agency AFP , Facebook says that everyone who can work remotely will have the opportunity to continue working remotely, even full-time. “We believe how we work is more important than where we work,” the company said. “And we want to be a place where people can do the best work of their career, no matter where they are located.”
Facebook is fully committed to working from home because of the corona pandemic, like many other companies. Employees used tools developed by the company itself. With Facebook’s offices reopening, particularly in the US because a significant portion of its employees have been vaccinated, the company is faced with a choice whether to let everyone return to the office or not.
To ensure security, from the time the offices on the Facebook campus in the US open on June 15, fewer employees may be in the office than before. The capacity is about fifty percent. Employees must also wear face masks, keep their distance from others and test regularly. A number of offices in Asia and Europe are already open.
In addition to allowing employees to continue working remotely if they wish, Facebook also promises that remote working across national borders will become easier. For example, the company will support employees if they want to move from the US to Canada or from the UK to other parts of Europe.
Major tech giants deal differently with working from home, now that offices worldwide are allowed to open again. For example, Google and Microsoft have devised a kind of hybrid system in which employees work partly at home and partly in the office, Twitter employees are allowed to work completely from home and Apple wants to see employees back at the office as soon as possible. From September they must be in the office at least three days a week, and eventually full-time again.