Facebook restricts social visitors to its offices over coronavirus concerns
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The world’s biggest social network is restricting social visits to its physical offices, as Facebook tries to protect its employees from coronavirus exposure, Business Insider reports.
A Facebook spokesperson tells The Verge that the company, which has offices in 35 countries, is “taking steps to reduce the risk to our employees from the emerging COVID-19 situation, including temporarily halting social visitors to all of our offices.” Facebook will continue to allow people to visit its offices for business purposes, and it will be conducting job interviews mostly via video conferencing in the near term.
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