The US-based firm also expects most offices to stay closed until July 6. Facebook currently employs 48,268 people, an increase of 28 percent (year-over-year) Social media company Facebook has allowed its employees who can work remotely to do so until the end of the year. The Coronavirus pandemic has forced a majority of workers around the globe to work nearly two months from home.
The US-based firm also predicts that most of the offices will remain closed until July 6. Facebook currently employs 48,268 people, a 28 percent (year-over-year) increase.
The organization said it will continue to pay hourly workers who might not be able to work because of decreased staffing, closures to the workplace, or if they are ill.
IT industry veteran Senapathy (Kris) Gopalakrishnan recently said more than one million IT workers are expected to continue working from home even after the coronavirus-inflicted lockdown situation returns to normalcy.IT services industry actually managed to move people from home to work during the 'stay-at-home' period, he said.
And this was not a trivial assignment. A large number of people who have to be supported with technology infrastructure to work from home; business processes will have to be changed, with client permission," said the co-founder of IT services firm Infosys. According to Gopalakrishnan, at least 20-30 percent of IT employees would continue to work from home even after the lockdown is lifted and the situation returns to normalcy. That accounts for about 1.2 million people, he said noting that four million professionals work in India's IT-Business Process Outsourcing sector as per industry body NASSCOM figures.
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