Meta will require employees to have a COVID-19 booster to return to the office

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The company has made changes to its plans.

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According to The Wall Street Journal, Meta will require staffers to have received a booster shot to work in the US. Meta had already said that US office employees would have to bevaccinated against COVID-19 when they returned to the office, but beginning March 28th, they will also need proof of a booster vaccine, according to TracyClayton. The company is postponing the reopening of its office until March 28th, which will push back the return that was scheduled for the end of this month.

Some Meta employees will not have to return to work on March 28th. The deferral policy was first announced in December and allows those who want to come back three to five months. The company is allowing staffers to work from home. Employees have until March 14th to decide if they want to come back to the office, defer their return, or request full time remote work.

The changes are being announced as the number of COVID-19 case counts increases.

The changes are being announced as the number of COVID-19 case counts is increasing across the US. The conference was closed a day early because of the rising cases, and many companies pulled their physical presences from this year. The Grammys have been postponed due to concerns about the omicron variant, while the in-person programming for the festival's 2022, has been canceled.

Tech companies have recently changed their office opening plans. Apple delayed its return to work in December and will not reopen until February 1st. In December, the company said it would wait until 2022, to make more return to office plans. Amazon let individual teams decide when they would return to offices after Microsoft gave up predicting an office reopening date in September.