Facebook to push remote hiring, tells employees they can move

An empty shuttle bus pulls into a mostly deserted Facebook campus in the Silicon Valley city of Menlo Park on March 12, 2020, as tech titans asks employees to work from home to fight the spread of novel coronavirus. The social network, which closed its Menlo Park, California, offices in early March due to the coronavirus outbreak, has already told employees that they can work from home through the end of the year. Zuckerberg shared the remote hiring plans with workers Thursday. — AFP

Facebook Inc plans to hire more remote workers in areas where the company doesn’t have an office, and let some current employees work from home permanently if they’d like to.

Chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg said the company plans to "aggressively open up remote hiring” starting immediately with the US, particularly for engineering talent. Based on internal employee surveys, he believes remote workers could make up as much as 50% of Facebook’s workforce in the next five to 10 years.