Source: at an all-hands meeting, Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook employees they will not be required to get vaccinated before returning to work in their offices
will persistent testing be required at least? https://twitter.com/... Ken Yeung / @thekenyeung : Oh cool. Wondering if he sprinkled that with a lil' bit of misinformation. https://twitter.com/...
Facebook employees planning a return to company offices face no vaccine requirement, leaving unvaccinated and vaccinated staff sharing the same workplaces with no stated testing regime.
Second-order effects
Rival employers' policies become the comparison point: when Google and Facebook both moved to require vaccinations for US staff before fall office returns in 2021 — Facebook with exemptions for medical and other cases (its own reversal), Google alongside delaying its return date to mid-October (matching the industry shift) — the December 2020 voluntary posture proved untenable.
Third-order effects
Corporate vaccine policy hardened from optional perk to baseline condition of employment across major tech employers, with all-hands announcements becoming the recurring channel through which Zuckerberg resets workplace terms — a dynamic that resurfaces in later employee-relations friction over retention and internal unease.
The trend: Big-tech return-to-office health policy moved from voluntary guidance in late 2020 to mandated vaccination by mid-2021, with each reversal announced through the same all-hands channel.
Taking a break from my FB tweeting for a different kind of FB tweeting: Mark Zuckerberg just told 50,000+ employees at an all-hands meeting that a vaccine will *not* be required for people who want to come back into the office.
I'm trying to juxtapose this with the “want to come work in production engineering at Facebook / commit war crimes” email I got from them this week. https://twitter.com/...