Facebook employees will work from home at least until the end of the year. The company has rejected its plans so that it brings us to employees to the office due to concerns about increasing COVID cases due to the Delta variant. The company had said earlier this summer that it planned to reopen the United States offices by 50 percent capacity for September. But that timeline has now been pushed to January as the cases have been raised.
“The data, not the dates, is what drives our approach to return to the office,” said the company in a statement to CNBC. “Given the recent health data showing growing COVID cases based on the Delta variant, our teams in the USA UU will not be required to return to the Office until January 2022. We hope that this is the case of some Countries outside the United States, too. We continue to monitor the situation and work with experts to ensure that our return to the office plans prioritizes the safety of all “.
Facebook made headlines at the beginning of 2020 for being, among the first to close their offices, long before many areas instituted their own blocking policies. The company has also said that it will require that its US employees vaccinated against Covid-19. Every time it is reopened, it is likely that the work is seen and feels very different from many employees. The company has said that it will embrace remote work in the future, with Mark Zuckerberg, saying that up to 50 percent of the company’s workforce could remote in the next 5 to 10 years.
