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Facebook Will Now Let Some Employees Work from Anywhere, but Their Paychecks Could Get Cut
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Facebook Will Now Let Some Employees Work from Anywhere, but Their Paychecks Could Get Cut

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said about half of the company’s employees could be working remotely in 10 years

Rachel Lerman and Elizabeth Dwoskin
The Washington Post, 2020
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Like the staff at many other tech companies, most Facebook employees have been working from home since the coronavirus pandemic began. Now, the company could have just half its workforce functioning remotely by 2030. Since Facebook is such a giant in its industry, its plans will have a wide impact on the field’s employment practices, especially in recruitment and compensation. Rachel Lerman and Elizabeth Dwoskin of The Washington Post predict that this effect will last well beyond the COVID-19 emergency. They report that Facebook needs to develop and leverage new technologies to support its employees and to capture additional social media and business users as they adjust to the new normal of remote work.

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  • “Working from anywhere,” a policy which began as a necessity during the coronavirus pandemic, will soon be business as usual for many Facebook employees.
  • Compensation for employees and new hires may change as remote work enables people to live in places with lower costs of living.
  • Facebook plans to build on its experience in coordinating and managing work-from-home employees as it develops new technologies.

About the Authors

Rachel Lerman and Elizabeth Dwoskin are California-based Washington Post reporters. Lerman covers technology from San Francisco and Dwoskin covers Silicon Valley. 

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