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By definition, don't all contractors have to generally not work from an office? Otherwise it's very easy to deem them full-time employees and they are entitled to benefits. Not sure of Facebook's specific situation or what roles they are contracting, but I'd imagine most of them aren't at HQ.


"By definition, don't all contractors have to generally not work from an office?"

At Facebook or in general?

I don't know FB's specific policies but in general, no, being a contractor does not automatically imply that you can work remotely.


They're just permatempts. Every company has them these days. The content moderators specifically work out of an Accenture office and aren't really contracted to facebook. They are Accenture's w-2 employees.


> They are Accenture's w-2 employees.

Then Accenture should be giving them allowance to work from home, not facebook.


These contractors at tech companies typically are full-time employees, they're just full time employees at other companies. The setup is that Facebook, or Google, has a contract with company like Accenture, which in turns provides its own full-time employees to do some work on FB/Google projects.


https://theintercept.com/2020/03/12/coronavirus-facebook-con...

This was in the news last week. Pretty sure I picked it up from Hacker News.




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