Facebook Closes London Offices After Visit From Employee With Virus
March 06 2020 - 02:07PM
Dow Jones News
By Sarah E. Needleman
Facebook Inc. said it closed its three offices in London after
an employee tested positive for the new coronavirus, adding to a
string of recent workplace closures sparked by the virus's spread
worldwide.
The infected employee is based in Singapore but was last week
visiting the company's offices in London, which employ roughly
3,000 people, a Facebook spokesman said.
The facilities will be closed until Monday for deep cleaning and
employees are working from home until then, the spokesman said. In
addition, any employees who had direct contact with the infected
person have been asked to self-isolate and be vigilant in
monitoring symptoms, he added.
The closure comes after Facebook on Wednesday said an employee
in Seattle was diagnosed with the disease caused by the new
coronavirus. That office is now closed and Facebook has encouraged
its roughly 5,000 employees in the Seattle area to work from home
through March 31, as well as those in its San Francisco Bay Area
offices.
Several other large technology companies, including Microsoft
Corp. and Amazon.com Inc., have also recently closed offices after
employees tested positive for the virus.
Write to Sarah E. Needleman at sarah.needleman@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
March 06, 2020 13:52 ET (18:52 GMT)
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