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All that and more here, in our big feature on the rise of remote: https://t.co/jnzjNgCv5b — PolitiTweet.org

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Just the idea of perma-#WFH has Bay Area workers dreaming of lower rents and a better QoL. "This is the question me and my friends are all talking about at the moment. There are a lot of interesting cities where you could have a really enjoyable lifestyle.” –A Google worker — PolitiTweet.org

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Despite the uncertainty, there’s a huge appetite for remote work — and when highly sought-after talent demands it, employers tend to listen. https://t.co/Q2mwlZ2eyu’s CEO told me that in surveys, 76 percent of employees said they’re in no hurry to get back to their desks. — PolitiTweet.org

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Cultural questions abound. Right now everyone’s remote, but how do you ensure remote workers have an equal voice when half the team is there in person? Companies say there’ll need to be much more intention toward team-building and mental health benefits. — PolitiTweet.org

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Big companies have spent billions on fancy HQs and lavish perks. Small ones have crammed into tight co-working spaces. Neither model is sustainable in a post-pandemic world. “What we'll see as a result of Covid is a return to personal, private workspaces,” one HR exec told me. — PolitiTweet.org

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Facebook is the latest company to pivot to permanent #WFH, making Silicon Valley again a leader in revolutionizing the way we work. We investigated all the ways this could change our lives — from wages to real estate to the way new companies are born. https://t.co/jnzjNgCv5b — PolitiTweet.org

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Me when I’m playing Cities: Skylines — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CNN: The projection — a guess, the CEO said, not a target — marks a major pivot by the world's biggest social media company to support… — PolitiTweet.org

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@mirandacgreen Wow, that family sure has a lot of siblings — PolitiTweet.org

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@andymstone Once Athena is up and running, I imagine it would have to be pretty good, right?? — PolitiTweet.org

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I wonder what Facebook’s compensation will look like for people who want to move to Antarctica. Those people have to exist, right? — PolitiTweet.org

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Facebook will also focus its early remote efforts on letting people work from areas close to Facebook’s existing offices — places like Portland, San Diego, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The company also expects to set up new clusters of employees in Atlanta, Dallas and Denver. — PolitiTweet.org

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Facebook will start by ramping up remote hiring for advanced engineering positions — new grads and entry level roles won’t be eligible for remote hiring, Zuckerberg says. — PolitiTweet.org

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One small note but an indication of where things are headed: Zuckeberg views video chat and augmented and virtual reality as important tools for helping workers stay connected. Facebook’s own VR tools may give it an advantage in this respect. — PolitiTweet.org

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Zuckerberg: “Of the people who said they might want to work full-time remotely, about 45 percent of them said they were pretty confident they would move to another place." — PolitiTweet.org

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Zuckerberg citing internal surveys showing that 60 percent would like the flexibility to work remotely, but there are also big swaths of employees that he said want to “get back to the office as soon as possible." — PolitiTweet.org

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He was clear that this 50% number is a guess, not a target, but that the company is certainly going to ramp up remote hiring and he wouldn’t be surprised if that’s where things ended up. — PolitiTweet.org

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Zuckerberg is pitching this both as a matter of employee satisfaction as well as a workforce diversity and economic opportunity issue. https://t.co/Vt2TszG1Fl — PolitiTweet.org

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Zuckerberg says that within the next 10 years, he expects that as much as 50% of the company could be working fully remotely. — PolitiTweet.org

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Mark Zuckerberg is doing a livestream about Facebook’s remote work plans. He says 95% of the company is currently remote and that even as they allow people back to the office, he expects only 25% to be back at their desks initially. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jonsarlin: The CEO of Zoom is an immigrant, blocked from the US 8 times. He became a billionaire selling Zoom to businesses and never e… — PolitiTweet.org

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Spotify says it’s letting employees work remotely through the end of the year if they choose, as the company takes a phased, city-by-city approach to reopening offices around the world. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @abbydphillip: This tweet has now been resent to say "applications" were sent to all voters. But it's still not true that this was done… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @zpincusroth: Powerful opening to @TracyJan's story about Asian American medical workers who face racism as they try to save lives https… — PolitiTweet.org

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Nobody told me Daft Punk was coming to town — PolitiTweet.org

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@scribandotcom This seems like it supports direct connection via USB-C: https://t.co/2SXByir9IE @JohnLeibovitz — PolitiTweet.org

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@JohnLeibovitz Regular podcasting USB mics won’t cut it because I won’t be close enough to the computer. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JohnLeibovitz TV hits from my laptop. — PolitiTweet.org

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@scribandotcom And some people report it doesn’t always work: https://t.co/ENESDUWcYw — PolitiTweet.org

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@JohnLeibovitz The problem isn’t spending $10 on an adapter that might or might not work. The problem is dropping $50 on a lav mic and *then* an adapter that, if it doesn’t work, creates questions about whether you could have solved it with a different mic. — PolitiTweet.org