Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch says remote staffers will continue working from home until the end of 2020, even as primetime hosts push to reopen the country

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• Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch told employees on Thursday that the company anticipates that non-production staffers who are working remotely "will continue to do so for the remainder of the calendar year," according to The Washington Post's Jeremy Barr.
• Murdoch's memo comes as popular hosts on Fox News continue pushing for states to reopen schools and businesses, even as new coronavirus cases spike across the country.
• As of Thursday evening, nearly 4.9 million Americans had been infected with coronavirus and almost 160,000 had died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
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Lachlan Murdoch, the CEO of Fox Corporation, told employees on Thursday that the company anticipates that non-production staffers who are working remotely "will continue to do so for the remainder of the calendar year," according to The Washington Post's Jeremy Barr.

Murdoch's memo to employees comes as multiple popular hosts on Fox News, which is Fox Corp's flagship news organization, continue pushing for states to reopen schools as new coronavirus cases spike across the country.

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