Facebook has announced that it will allow its employees to continue working from home until July 2021 due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The company had in May declared that employees could work from home till the end of 202o.
Speaking with CNBC, a spokeswoman for the social media giant has now said;
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.
The company will also provide its employees with an additional $1,000 bonus for their home office needs.
Facebook provided employees with a similar bonus after shelter-in-place orders first went into effect earlier this year.
The spokesman added;
Although employees will be allowed to work from home, the company said it will continue to reopen offices in restricted capacities in regions where government guidance permits and where there has been virus mitigation for approximately two months.
However, the company added that it was unlikely 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.
Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said there was ‘no end in sight’ for when his employees could return to their offices after a resurgence of COVID-19 in the U.S.
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Facebook‘s decision follows that of Google, which in May announced that it would allow its employees to continue working from home through the end of June 2021.
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