{"id":25087,"date":"2020-05-21T18:25:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T01:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25087"},"modified":"2020-05-21T18:25:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T01:25:14","slug":"facebook-permanently-shifting-thousands-of-jobs-to-remote-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25087","title":{"rendered":"Facebook permanently shifting thousands of jobs to remote work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that half of Facebook employees could be working remotely in the next five to 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>The social media giant sent the vast majority of its employees home in March in response to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 95 percent of Facebook employees are still working from home, Zuckerberg said during an internal employee town hall livestreamed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The company will now allow current employees with positive performance reviews to apply to work remotely permanently.<\/p>\n<p>Experienced workers will have a better chance of being approved, Zuckerberg said, noting that new hires early in their careers will still need to work from offices once they reopen.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook CEO said the company is going to aggressively scale up remote hiring, prioritizing workers within a few hours of existing offices.<\/p>\n<p>The company will also start hiring hubs in Atlanta, Dallas and Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg noted that compensation for remote work could be dependent on location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that half&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25088,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25087\/revisions\/25088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}