Facebook half of employees or telecommuting in the next 5 to 10 years
With the current situation new coronary pneumonia,many enterprises have been adversely affected,but Internet companies are on the contrary.
Yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he expects 50% of the company's employees to work remotely in the next five to 10 years.
"For a company of our size, we are going to be the most advanced in the field of telecommuting," Zuckerberg said
He said that Facebook would begin to allow certain employees to work full-time remotely, and said that if the employees move before January 1, 2021, they must notify Facebook, and their salary may be adjusted according to the new location after the move.
Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would "actively" hire new employees for telecommuting and "cautiously" create permanent telecommuting jobs for existing employees. He believes the decision should help Facebook improve retention and help the company recruit people who won't consider moving to big cities. In addition, Facebook can improve the diversity of its employees and spread economic opportunities to more places.
He points out that 95% of Facebook employees are currently telecommuting, and says a survey conducted by the company found that 50% of Facebook employees said they work as efficiently at home as they work in the office. According to the survey, 40% of Facebook employees say they are extremely, very or to some extent interested in full-time telecommuting, while 75% of these employees say that if they can telecommute, they are either very confident or likely to move to other cities.
Before Facebook, twitter, square, a mobile payment company, and Shopify, an e-commerce company, made similar decisions, allowing employees to continue telecommuting.
Facebook also released new features for its enterprise communications software workplace on Thursday, and announced that the number of workplace paying users has increased from 3 million in October last year to 5 million today, driven by the new crown virus.
The development of the times must have changed for a long time.hope everyone can be healthy.