Facebook: “Smart working indefinitely”. But at home, Big Tech splits up

IF THERE ARE companies that can imagine the future of remote working, they may be in Silicon Valley. Because, as everyone has learned with the shock of the pandemic, to empty the physical places of production without losing productivity, it is first of all necessary to be technologically equipped, in the tools but also above all in the mentality. Yet it is precisely from the cradle of the great American technology companies that conflicting signals have been arriving in recent weeks on how, if and to what extent to reshape the presence of workers in the office and at home, now that the contagion nightmare is finally easing.