The company claimed that they don't see this necessarily as a cost-saving measure because they plan on providing for home office equipment for permanent remote workers, kind of like how employees going to the office have monitors and keyboards provided for them.
But honestly, it could be the best teleconferencing gear, I’d never put a camera from FB in my home.
$179. Lol
If Facebook gave each dev a $15,000 computer setup then most will still be royally fucked by this policy.
And if not shifting those costs, then seems like a windfall for accountants to deal with all the tax implications.
Or, an opportunity for a new wave of politicians to figure out how to implement tax and labor laws in such an environment.