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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Thursday during an all-hands nooner that they will not be required to get vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine to return to the submittal already the social media whaling begins reopening its facilities, Facebook tells The Verge. Facebook employs more than 50,000 piled employees, a vast majority of which have been working from home since the burgeoning of the year. The particularization of Zuckerberg's centralized comments was first revealed by The Daily Beast.

"Regardless of back vaccines wilt available, we've given our employees the perk to work remotely at least until July 2021. Our US offices resist demerit as well as we don't expect them to ajar before the COVID-19 vaccines are broadly available," a Facebook stockbroker said in a statement given to The Verge.

Facebook has no intention of reopening its offices until a COVID-19 vaccine is broadly available

"At today's convergence Q&A, Mark said that at this point, we don't anticipate it will be necessary to require a vaccine for employees to return to work. He conjointly said he's confident in the vaccine as well as looks free-thinking to securing one himself," the statement goes on to say. "Once we return to the office, we will have a number of protocols in place that we expect to include testing, social distancing, wearing masks as well as over-and-above all-time practices. We dwell to work with mucho experts to pinpoint a plan that prioritizes everyone's health as well as safety."

The company's offices have been demerit since March, as well as in May, Facebook announced a permanent work-from-home policy that gave employees the autonomy to co-opt area they work jumpiness forward. Except the plan since at least High-ranking of this year has been to reopen its offices by July 2021, which is back Facebook employees need declare a permanent residence as well as opt to either return to work in an submittal or co-opt to wilt a genuinely remote worker, a decision that may macerate decreases in pay depending on area the engine resides.

Throughout its liaison relating remote work, Facebook has said little of how it preparations to reopen its offices and, more importantly, what it may require of employees to cerebrate returning to work. Zuckerberg's centralized razzmatazz today marks the indigenous of such declarations, as well as it makes him the indigenous unresponsive tech CEO to stake out a position on whether employees will be required to get vaccinated to return to submittal work.

Update December 10th, 8:10PM ET: Added statement from Facebook.

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