Facebook increases staff by 9,400 employees.

Facebook is going to hire over 9,400 employees in the next six years.

The company, the number of users of which is actively increasing, confirmed in February that it is moving to a new office of 79 acres (approximately 32 hectares) due to expansion.
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MercuryNews.com reports that currently the company employs 2,000 people worldwide - 1,400 of them in the Palo Alto office. The company expects to fully occupy the new office by 2017.

Facebook expects to increase its ranks by more than five times, adding 9,400 employees by 2017.

“It's dangerous, but they are confident that the threat is not very great,” said Rob Enderle, an analyst at the Enderle Group. “I’m afraid they’ve paid insufficient attention to such a long-term strategy, and this can do more harm than good.”

Facebook did not comment on this statement.

A spokeswoman told Computerworld that in February, the company bought the former Sun Microsystems office in Menlo Park, California, which was Sun's headquarters until it acquired Oracle. It occupies 57 acres, including nine buildings with a total area of ​​approximately 1 million square meters ...

Facebook also acquired the neighboring 22 acres of land connected to the former Sun office through a tunnel. A spokesman said the company sees these lands as opportunities for future development.

A spokesman also added that companies need to hire more people.

“Our new campus provides us with the necessary opportunities for further growth,” she said.

Employees will move to a new office gradually, the first group - in June or July.