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Twitter will allow its employees to work from home “forever,” CEO Jack Dorsey said Tuesday in a company-wide email.
The San Francisco-based company, with locations in Dublin and London, employs about 5,000 people and said it was one of the first to start a model of working from home. It is a Dublin International subsidiary of Twitter International that employs around 170 people, according to its most recent accounts.
A Twitter spokesperson said the company was “one of the first companies to go to a work-from-home model” due to Covid-19, but does not anticipate being one of the first to return to its offices.
“We were in a unique position to respond quickly and allow people to work from home given our emphasis on decentralization and support for a distributed workforce capable of working from anywhere,” the company said in a blog.
“The past few months have shown that we can make that work. So if our employees have a role and a situation that allows them to work from home and want to continue doing so forever, we will make that happen. ”
Twitter has “recommended” working from home since March 2 and has ordered employees to work from home starting March 11. Employees who prefer to work remotely can now do so indefinitely, Twitter said in its statement. Those who want to return to the office will probably have to wait at least until September.
“When we decide to open offices, it will also not be a return to the way it was before,” the company said. “It will be careful, intentional, office by office, and gradual.”
Twitter has suspended almost all of its employees’ business trips and all of its in-person events until 2021. It is also granting older employees permission to purchase home office supplies, including desks and desk chairs.
The change occurs when companies in the technology industry are evaluating how to manage their offices in the coming months. Google and Facebook extended their work-from-home policies until 2021. Amazon extended its work-from-home policy until at least early October. – PA / Guardian
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