Whether they'll survive the crisis is unclear. Google, like many Silicon Valley companies, has free food buffets. In the meantime, Facebook will allow most employees to work from home through the end of the year. The company, which seats employees close to one another in open office layouts, will also limit workplace capacity to 25%, Bloomberg reported. The company wants to keep a team atmosphere even though it's more remote, and so it's planning to build up hubs of work-from-home employees in Atlanta, Dallas and Denver.įacebook doesn't plan to reopen offices until July 6 at the earliest and will require employees to go through temperature checks, wear face masks and practice social distancing. Entry-level employees need to work with their teams in the office in order to learn the ropes, Zuckerberg said.
They also have to be part of a team that's allowing for remote work, and they have to get approval from one of their leaders.įacebook will also hire remote workers, though only people with experience. He also acknowledged that there would be " a lot of nuances" in how the policies would work in practice.Įmployees will be eligible to work from home permanently if they're experienced and have strong job performance, he said. The social networking giant, whose buses ferried thousands of employees from around the San Francisco Bay Area to its Menlo Park, California, headquarters and back, said it expects as much as half its staff to transition to working from home within the next five to 10 years.įacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new changes to his company's 48,000 full-time employees in a livestream and blog post on May 21. That may not work in a post-coronavirus world. Facebook's offices often group employees together.