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An Attractive Benefit From Facebook To The Employees

Facebook offers an attractive benefits option for California headquarters (HQ) employees. Reuters origin of this incentive on the agenda for the last 12 months. Lastly, it was confirmed by the press agent of Facebook.

Rachel Kowalski
Rachel KowalskiCybersecurity Analyst
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An Attractive Benefit From Facebook To The Employees

Facebook offers an attractive benefits option for California headquarters (HQ) employees. Reuters origin of this incentive on the agenda for the last 12 months. Lastly, it was confirmed by the press agent of Facebook.

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Press Agent said that Facebook’s human resources policies intended on supporting the employees at every stage of their lives. According to this Facebook employee benefit, if the employees move to in a distance of 16 kilometers from Facebook’s Menlo Park, they will get extra 10K dollars encouragement. Facebook’s central office is 48 kilometers south of San Francisco, for some workers, it means long commute time to go to work. And also, engineers are complaining of high rents in Silicon Valley. As a note recently an engineer who works at Google bought a truck and transformed it as a small home.

Another important detail of the employees’ overtime. When employees have to work overtime, they feel to leave office earlier to go their home because of this handicap. But the distance is close to home, employees can stay easier and does not leave the office without completing the work overtime.Being late to work on morning or overtime stress after work every evening certainly affects the productivity.The sole purpose of today’s tech companies to feel more like a home office and to utilize more the labor force.

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Rachel Kowalski

Rachel Kowalski

Cybersecurity Analyst

Rachel Kowalski is the Cybersecurity Analyst at TrendinTech, where she covers vulnerabilities, ransomware, supply chain attacks, nation-state operations and the security rules shaping organizations in the United States and Europe. Before moving into journalism she worked as a threat intelligence analyst at a security vendor and later reported for CyberScoop and the security desk at Wired, covering the SolarWinds compromise and the ransomware wave that hit hospitals and pipelines. Rachel holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from the Georgia Institute of Technology and attends Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas each year, where she follows research from the security community. She writes to make risks and countermeasures understandable to people who are not specialists.

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