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Re:With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck ... by ericd on Sunday May 24, 2020 @06:51PM (#23295610)
That’s pretty funny. I have an amazing home office setup, and even all that high-end kit cost a very small fraction of an FB engineer yearly salary. Are they planning on burning the delta by throwing in high-end telepresence hardware, or something?
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Re:With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck ... by temporalparts on Sunday May 24, 2020 @07:16PM (#23295815)
I don't know if it's high end, but every FTE I know got a Portal.
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Re:With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck ... by ericd on Sunday May 24, 2020 @08:30PM (#23296352)
The top end afaik is the Cisco telepresence gear used in eg the White House. There’s a spectrum in between, but $280 is definitely near the lower end. Maybe portal is really good, though?

But honestly, it could be the best teleconferencing gear, I’d never put a camera from FB in my home.

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Re:With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck ... by amgreg on Sunday May 24, 2020 @08:06PM (#23296175)
Pardon my ignorance, but what is a Portal?
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Re:With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck ... by detaro on Sunday May 24, 2020 @08:08PM (#23296187)
A video-call device they make: https://portal.facebook.com/
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Re:With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck ... by flocial on Sunday May 24, 2020 @08:27PM (#23296333)
I was about to ask the same question. I didn't even know this product existed!
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Re:With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck ... by absoluteharam on Sunday May 24, 2020 @09:47PM (#23296917)
a whitelabled version of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen
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Re:With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck ... by agloeregrets on Sunday May 24, 2020 @10:04PM (#23297008)
The average dev at Facebook is paid like $150k. If they implement this then some engineers will lose $50k per year.

$179. Lol

If Facebook gave each dev a $15,000 computer setup then most will still be royally fucked by this policy.

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Re:With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck ... by grumple on Sunday May 24, 2020 @09:48PM (#23296922)
At $179 that's a cheap product.
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