Facebook: 10,000 new jobs in the EU in 5 years

Facebook will create 10,000 new jobs across the European Union over the next five years.

"The region will be put at the center of our plans to help build the metaverse, the computing platform of the future, a new generation of interconnected virtual experiences using technologies such as virtual and augmented reality. It has the potential to help unlock access. to new creative, social and economic opportunities, "explain Nick Clegg, Vice President of Global Affairs, and Javier Olivan, Vice President of Central Product Services, in making the official announcement.

    The metaverse is considered the new frontier of the Internet, a few months ago in an interview Mark Zuckerberg had already mentioned he wanted to invest in this field. It consists of an interconnected set of experiences involving both the digital and the physical world. "In starting the journey to turn the metaverse into a reality, one of Facebook's most urgent priorities is to find highly specialized engineers - explains the company - We look forward to working with governments across the EU to find the right people and the right markets to push this goal forward, as part of an upcoming recruiting campaign that will take place across the region. "

    "This investment is a vote of confidence in the strength of the European technology industry and in the potential of European technological talent. Europe is extremely important for Facebook", underline the two vice-presidents Clegg and Olivan, recalling both "the German biotechnology that has contributed to develop the first MRNA vaccine ", and the investments already made by Facebook in Europe as" the European research laboratory on Artificial Intelligence with the FAIR acceleration program in France and the headquarters of Facebook Reality Labs in Cork "(ANSA) .