Facebook Cancels Large In-Person Events Through June 2021 (cnn.com) 15
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Facebook (FB) is canceling all of its planned physical events with 50 or more people through June 2021 due to concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. Some of those events will be held virtually instead, wrote CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a post on his Facebook page on Thursday. Zuckerberg also said the "vast majority" of Facebook employees will work from home through at least the end of next month. The company is extending its policy of no business travel through at least June.
"A small percent of our critical employees who can't work remotely, like content reviewers working on counter-terrorism or suicide and self-harm prevention, and engineers working on complex hardware, may be able to return sooner, but overall, we don't expect to have everyone back in our offices for some time," Zuckerberg said. Zuckerberg also said employees who feel they can't return to the office for reasons such as lack of childcare can work remotely through at least the summer.
"A small percent of our critical employees who can't work remotely, like content reviewers working on counter-terrorism or suicide and self-harm prevention, and engineers working on complex hardware, may be able to return sooner, but overall, we don't expect to have everyone back in our offices for some time," Zuckerberg said. Zuckerberg also said employees who feel they can't return to the office for reasons such as lack of childcare can work remotely through at least the summer.
Cancelling Large In-Person Get-togethers (Score:2)
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Easier to cancel them out further than needed than to go into the system repeated cancelling events as the pandemic might require?
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He knows it's safer to cancel before being on the hook for the reservation fees, and that it should be easy enough to reschedule if necessary. Large conferences and events are literally going to be one of the very the last things that returns to normal, likely only after a vaccine is well-tested and very broadly distributed.
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What, like there is no known cure for COVID-19 and a vaccine is over a year away due to the amount of time it takes to test vaccines. The vaccine testing process that can't be speeded up because you have to monitor people for roughly a year to see what side-effects happen, side effects like death. This isn't a secret.
And all but a handful of countries are not taking the measures necessary to halt the spread of the virus. Those measures are extensive testing + contact tracin
Zuckerberg is a genius! (Score:1)
I'm so glad he's on our country's "Reopening the Country Task Force or Reopening the Country Council"
And his wife too! I mean, she has Doctor in her name so she must be smart!
this is excessive (Score:1)
content reviewers working on counter-terrorism ... (Score:1)
Both of them?
How hard is to find safe office space for two people in empty office?
I can just see him now (Score:1)
"Screw humanity anyway, these conversations were getting boring"
*shoots console*
Facebook finally gets with the program ... (Score:1)
Social distancing. The new norm. And Facebook finally accepts, weeks too late, that they are oh so far behind the times.
How much more pathetic can you get than an online venture finally accepting that facetime should be strictly limited.