SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook will allow employees to work from home until July 2021 due to the coronavirus outbreak and will provide an additional $1,000 for home office needs.
The company joins other big technology firms that have taken similar steps recently. Late in July, Google said it would allow employees who do not need to be in the office to work from home until the end of June 2021, while Twitter had allowed remote work indefinitely for some employees.
“Based on guidance from health and government experts, as well as decisions drawn from our internal discussions about these matters, we are allowing employees to continue voluntarily working from home until July 2021,” a Facebook spokeswoman said in a statement. “In addition, we are giving employees an additional $1,000 for home office needs,” it added.
Facebook also said that the company will continue reopening offices in a restricted capacity where government guidance permits and where virus mitigation has taken place for about two months.
The company added that it was unlikely that many locations will reopen in the United States and Latin America before the end of the year due to the high number of COVID-19 cases.
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