Facebook joins Twitter and Microsoft in saying its staff can work from home after the pandemic
Facebook said its employees could work from home or be laid off.
Facebook employees will need to be approved by their manager for full-time remote work.
Some major technology companies, such as Twitter, have also said it will allow people to work from home forever.
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Facebook on Sunday said its employees could continue to work from home after a coronavirus infection, joining other senior technology officials who told workers they could work far and wide forever.
Facebook previously said workers could continue to work remotely until June 2021. But Brynn Harrington, vice president of the HR team at Facebook, told the BBC that some workers were "thriving" at home and wanted to continue working remotely.
"For example, parents who are close to their children and who are happy to reduce their travel time and improve their working day, enjoy working at home," she said.
Employees can apply to their supervisors to work permanently by working remotely, added Harrington.
He said remote work was "the future," but there was no easy adjustment for some staff.
"Obviously this is working at home at a time when it is spreading, we are not in a time of healthy remote work," he said.
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"We have people who take care of responsibilities, we have people living in small flats and people we live with, those people want to go back to the offices, and we work hard to do that, as soon as it's safe to open our offices."
Facebook first announced a full-time employee position in May 2020.
Facebook plans to reopen its offices in Silicon Valley in May by 10%, according to a Bloomberg report. Employees will be required to wear face masks, social distance, and, in some cases, be tested for the virus weekly, the report said.
In May, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said he expected 50% of the company's employees to be completely absent in the next ten years.
Facebook is following in the footsteps of some tech professionals who are implementing long-term homework policies. Twitter was one of the social media companies that told employees they could work from home permanently, for example.
Microsoft also announced in October that it would offer employees the option of working from home or in the office. They are only allowed to work remotely for less than half of their hours on average - if they want to work remotely, they will have to talk to their manager, Microsoft said.
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