Posted on 04/16/2020 8:03:18 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the company will hold no real-life meetups for more than a year, and has encouraged his staff to continue working from home during the pandemic.
Zuckerberg posted today that all planned Facebook physical events with 50 or more attendees were canceled until June 2021, but that some virtual events would be possible.
“As we start to think about what it will look like to re-open society, I wanted to provide an update on how we’re planning for our teams at Facebook,” Zuckerberg wrote. “The summary is: we’re slowing our plans to return to the office in order to prioritize helping the rest of our community and local economy to get back up and running first.”
Facebook headquarters is in Menlo Park, Calif. The company has had a stay-home order in place since March 19. California has barred reopening until widespread testing is available across the state, along with a tracking system. President Trump’s coronavirus task force has left it up to state governors to determine the safest path forward on reopenings.
Zuckerberg said that only essential employees, such as the “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,” are to work from home.
“Most Facebook employees are fortunate to be able to work productively from home, so we feel a responsibility to allow people who don’t have this flexibility to access shared public resources first. I hope this helps contain the spread of Covid-19 so we can keep our communities safe and get back up and running again soon.”
To make the headlines.
Mission accomplished.
Total communist idiot. Never had a Facebook account and never will.
16 Apr: Reuters: New York forms team to develop ‘Trump-proof’ economic reopening plan
by Jarrett Renshaw; Editing by Heather Timmons, Cynthia Osterman and Bill Berkrot
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has tapped high-powered consultants to develop a science-based plan for the safe economic reopening of the region that can thwart pressure from President Donald Trump to move more rapidly, state government sources told Reuters...
Governors from seven East Coast states formed a coalition on Monday, led by New York, to develop a joint reopening plan. Three governors from the West Coast formed a similar plan. The 10 states, mostly led by Democrats, together make up 38% of the U.S. economy.
As part of Cuomo’s effort, McKinsey & Company is producing models on coronavirus testing, infections and other key data points that along with other research and expert opinions will help underpin decisions on how and when to reopen the region’s economy.
Dani Lever, communications director for Cuomo, said McKinsey has been primarily helping New York analyze the COVID-19 surge, such as hospital capacity and infection rates.
Cuomo has also recalled three former top aides: Bill Mulrow, a senior adviser director at Blackstone Group; Steven Cohen, an executive vice president of MacAndrews & Forbes Inc; and Larry Schwartz, who, like the others, previously served as secretary to the governor.
Deloitte is also involved in developing the regional plan, a source told Reuters on Wednesday.
The goal is to “Trump-proof” the plan, said an adviser to New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy.
“We think Trump ultimately will blink on this, but if not, we need to push back, and we are reaching out to top experts and other professionals to come up with a bullet-proof plan,” to open on the state’s terms, said a Cuomo adviser.
Trump, whose reelection bid was built on a strong economy before it was derailed by the epidemic, is losing patience with the economic shutdown and has challenged governors who are preaching caution, setting the stage for larger clashes over the pace of the reopening...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-governors-excl/new-york-forms-team-to-develop-trump-proof-economic-reopening-plan-idUSKCN21Y01V
There is something completely corrupt about this. It makes no sense except for the immediate impact of the outlandish statement.
That would make sense, better cancel for 14 months to make people feel safe.
Commercial office buildings are going to take a massive hit.
Don’t know what I would have done without Zuckerberg’s counsel and wisdom.
I agree. What if a vaccine is made available this summer? Then this edict would look pretty stupid and not well thought out.
Nevertheless, I'm now seeing that the world will never be the same again. I just wrapped up my 8th ZOOM meeting today working from home. At 5PM, some of us are going to open another ZOOM meeting for "virtual cocktails" to end the week. We are going to play some music in the background and share adult beverages as if we were at a bar.
This is the new normal. I've been working at home since March 16th and these virtual meetings on ZOOM (and Google Meet) have efficiently taken the place of the in-person meetings we used to have. With corporate VPN, I have access to the same company resources I would have at the office and all my co-workers (and clients) are just a few taps on my keyboard away. I daresay that I have been more productive in this environment and I'm ahead of the curve on a lot of my projects. Now it's nearing 5PM on Friday and I'm already sitting home ready to start the weekend.
I really think that corporations are going to rethink the whole concept of "office space" after this and whether the millions of dollars a year they spend on brick and mortar corporate real estate is really worth the cost.
I’ve come to the same conclusion re: brick/mortar offices.
Hubby’s organization has decided that henceforth, ability to work from home with minimal direct oversight will be a hiring criteria.
I’m willing to bet they’re not alone in that going forward.
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