Facebook to Create 10,000 EU Jobs Over 5 Years With the Metaverse in Mind

The company pointed to the region’s size, talent pool, universities and regulatory climate

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Facebook plans to create 10,000 new “high-skilled” jobs in the European Union over the next five years to help build out the metaverse.

Vice president of global affairs Nick Clegg and vp of central products Javier Olivan said in a Newsroom post Sunday that reasons why the EU is a good region for investment include its “first-class” universities, large consumer market and top-quality talent.

They pointed out that Facebook has made significant investments in the region’s talent over the years, including: opening its first European artificial intelligence research lab; its FAIR accelerator program in France, its Facebook

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