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Facebook Plans $1,000 Bonuses to Help Employees During Coronavirus Crisis

By and  |  March 17, 2020 8:03 AM PDT
Photo: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Bloomberg

Facebook will pay a $1,000 bonus to every employee, one of the first big companies to offer workers cash to help them during the coronavirus outbreak. It follows a similar move by enterprise software firm Workday on Monday.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement early Tuesday in an internal company notice, saying that the company wants to support employees working remotely because of the pandemic, said two people familiar with the matter.


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