Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, announced on Thursday that the social media company will begin allowing many of its 50,000 employees and new hires to work from home frequently and permanently. This brings the total number of tech companies that have embraced decentralized work during the coronavirus pandemic to a relatively small but growing number.
In an interview, Zuckerberg said, "We are going to be the most forward-leaning firm on remote work at our scale, with a deliberate and responsible plan for how to achieve this." "We're going to do it gradually and in a methodical fashion."
Zuckerberg estimates that around half of Facebook's personnel will work remotely during the next five to ten years. That would entail a major change in the personnel concentration, which might drastically alter how the business functions and have an effect on the San Francisco Bay Area.
Beyond the urban areas where Facebook has offices, that approach will begin with "aggressively opening up remote hiring" - first in the United States, then elsewhere.
"It doesn't seem that good to constrain hiring to people who live around offices," Zuckerberg said.
Additionally, Facebook will allow current workers to apply for remote employment. Those who have shown they can perform well and work remotely may then be given the option to do so on a long-term basis. The vast majority of Facebook employees have already been informed that they can work from home till the end of this year.
Following the announcements made by Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey that employees at both of his companies would soon be able to work remotely, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the same news during a company-wide Q&A session on Thursday. The Canadian e-commerce firm Shopify made a comparable announcement on Thursday.
The change at Facebook will be much more gradual. By the end of the year, only about 25% of the company's employees, according to Zuckerberg, are expected to return to work.
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