{"id":133867,"date":"2022-01-10T20:22:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T04:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/meta-delays-return-to-office-to-an-optimistic-march-28"},"modified":"2022-01-10T20:22:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T04:22:26","slug":"meta-delays-return-to-office-to-an-optimistic-march-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/meta-delays-return-to-office-to-an-optimistic-march-28","title":{"rendered":"Meta delays return to office to an optimistic March 28"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Why they need to return office?\ud83e\udd14\ud83e\udd14.Can\u2019t they work from virtual world?<\/p>\n

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Meta, the company that at the beginning of this pandemic was called Facebook, has updated its return-to-office guidance, moving its target date from the end of this month to March 28, CNBC reports<\/a>. With the shifting timetables for reopening and inconsistent guidance, one can only imagine how whiplashed the company\u2019s employees must feel.<\/p>\n

To wit: Back in December of 2020, CEO Mark Zuckerberg first told<\/a> employees they would not be required to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in order to return to work. At that time, the company projected remote work could continue until at least<\/a> July of 2021, though it later pushed to open offices in May<\/a>. By June, Zuckerberg had passed a new edict<\/a>: either seek permission from a manager to work from home, or be expected to come to the office for at least half the week.<\/p>\n

A month later the Delta variant came along, Zuckerberg changed his stance on vaccine requirements<\/a> for employees, and the company set a new target<\/a> of October for a full reopening. By August of last year, it had pushed<\/a> its the return-to-office to January of 2022. As Omicron spread rapidly this winter, Meta held fast to its January 31 goal, but gave some employees the option to delay<\/a> in-person work by three to five months via an \u201coffice deferral program.\u201d Incidentally, this new March 28 date includes a new requirement that employees receive the vaccine booster as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why they need to return office?\ud83e\udd14\ud83e\udd14.Can\u2019t they work from virtual world? Meta, the company that at the beginning of this pandemic was called Facebook, has updated its return-to-office guidance, moving its target date from the end of this month to March 28, CNBC reports. With the shifting timetables for reopening and inconsistent guidance, one can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}