The world’s largest social network, Facebook, is planning to almost double the size of its workforce within the next year with plans to launch an engineering centre in New York City.
The plans for the new recruitment drive and company expansion were announced on Friday by Facebook Chief Operating Operator, Sheryl Sandberg, who revealed that the social network would be looking to add thousands of employees to the Facebook payroll over the course of the next year.
While Ms Sanberg refused to put an exact number on the staff Facebook are planning to employ as part of the new recruitment drive, she did reveal that they would hire as many qualified candidates as possible.
Facebook’s main workforce is currently based in California where the social network employs 3,000 people, while their New York base is miniature in comparison with just 100 currently employed in the city.
However all of that is due to change over the next 12 months with plans afoot to open a brand new engineering centre in New York in early 2012 employing skilled engineers to enhance the site’s features and write new coding to ensure Facebook’s 800 million users worldwide benefit from the very latest technology and online features.
According to a report from the TV network, Facebook are currently accepting applications to fill their vacancies at their New York base.
