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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 firm 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 next five to 10 years.
The social network, which closed its Menlo Park, California, offices in early March, 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. Facebook had more than 48,000 global staff at the end of March.