Facebook has become the latest company to join the likes of Google and Twitter to let its employees continue to work from home through July 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The social media giant will also give its employees $1,000 for home office needs, a spokeswoman for the social media giant said on Thursday.
Facebook has had nearly all of its roughly 48,000 employees working remotely since the initial wave of stay-at-home orders back in March, and it previously announced that it would have employees work remotely through the end of 2020.
“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. In addition, we are giving employees an additional $1,000 for home office needs,” Facebook spokesperson Nneka Norville said.
In July, Alphabet Inc's Google had 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 Inc had proposed remote work indefinitely for some of its employees.
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.
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.
