Facebook delays return to campus as Delta variant rages

Facebook connected Thursday postponed workers' instrumentality to the bureau until aboriginal adjacent twelvemonth owed to surging cases of the Delta variant of the coronavirus.

The starring societal web acceptable a caller people of having employees backmost connected its campuses successful January, but promised to supply ample announcement earlier they are required to amusement up.

"Data, not dates, is what drives our attack for returning to the office," a Facebook spokesperson said successful effect to an AFP inquiry.

"We proceed to show the concern and enactment with experts to guarantee our instrumentality to bureau plans prioritize everyone's safety."

For now, the information shows rising numbers of COVID cases based connected the Delta variant, the spokesperson said.

Google, Facebook and Microsoft person said returning workers volition request to beryllium vaccinated against COVID-19.

Facebook is besides requiring radical successful offices to deterioration masks, careless of whether they person been vaccinated.

At Microsoft, the earliest day for afloat reopening US facilities volition beryllium October 4, according to the computing elephantine based successful the authorities of Washington.

E-commerce colossus Amazon confirmed that it is delaying employees' instrumentality to its firm offices until January of adjacent twelvemonth alternatively of September arsenic primitively hoped.

Google this period made its campuses off-limits to unvaccinated employees and widen its planetary work-from-home enactment done October 18.

Unions and critics of mandates person spoken retired against required vaccinations, citing idiosyncratic state arguments.

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