Hi, I'm Danframack, and welcome to Axios Recap, brought to you by Comcast.

Today is Monday, March 8th, and we're looking back at the same week one year ago, the week that America changed.

This is our COVID-19 decision-makers series.

Conversations about some of the most consequential decisions made it this time last year.

Today, we look at the decision to send employees home with one of the first people to make that call, Facebook C.O.

Cheryl Sandberg.

On March 6, 2020, tens of thousands of Facebook employees left the office and didn't come back. By the following Monday, other employers were looking to Facebook as an example of the new remote work landscape, as they pondered what to do with their own people. Today, Cheryl Sandberg tells us the story

behind Facebook's decision to close its offices. She'll take you inside hers and Mark Zuckerberg's

conversations, share how remote work impacted her own life and family, and unpack how many other

decisions had to happen at Facebook nearly simultaneously, such as how to deal with COVID-19

information on its platforms and how to help its small business users. That conversation in 15

seconds. Do you remember who was the first person who said we should send everybody home?

Mark was the first person who said we might send everyone home.

That I have a very strong recollection of.

We had kind of been thinking about it since January.

In early January, you know, Mark, because of the work he does with CZI,

the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, they do health work. So he started getting briefings

from disease experts. And then in January, Mark told me and others that we should get ready

for the possibility that we would all have to work from home. And there might be a pandemic.

And I thought he was nuts. I was like, what do you mean there'd be a pandemic?

What's a pandemic?

And would we really work from home?

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