Twitter Will Allow Employees To Work At Home Forever

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Twitter Will Allow Employees To Work At Home Forever


Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey emailed employees on Tuesday telling them that they'd be allowed to work from home permanently, even after the coronavirus pandemic lockdown passes. Some jobs that require physical presence, such as maintaining servers, will still require employees to come in. "We've been very thoughtful in how we've approached this from the time we were one of the first companies to move to a work-from-home model," a Twitter spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. "We'll continue to be, and we'll continue to put the safety of our people and communities first."

Twitter encouraged its employees to start working from home in early March as the coronavirus began to spread across the US. Several other tech companies did the same, including Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. That month, Twitter human resources head Jennifer Christie told BuzzFeed News the company would "never probably be the same" in the structure of its work. "People who were reticent to work remotely will find that they really thrive that way," Christie said. "Managers who didn't think they could manage teams that were remote will have a different perspective. I do think we won't go back."

 

[Capital Steez]

Moves like this will have a major impact on the concentration of talent in only major metropolitan cities.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Dorsey has lightweight wanted his companies out of SF for a minute. This gives him a chance to downsize his real estate footprint, close the company cafe - no more free food, and lower the amount of tax he pays to SF.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Moves like this will have a major impact on the concentration of talent in only major metropolitan cities.

Could be a win all around, maybe people recruit folks who aren’t in the usual job centers, giving people a shot a a great jobs who wouldn’t otherwise have those opportunities, while at the same time allowing talent to move to lower cost of living areas and allow middle class workers back into the market in expensive areas.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

This is a huge W for a state like Texas and a huge L for us in NYC and San Francisco.

 

[JLova]

This is a huge W for a state like Texas and a huge L for us in NYC and San Francisco.

Huge L for any cities that have a high cost of living.

 

[Pure Water]

WATTBA

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Nvm

 

[thernbroom]

Damn I would move back to the motherland if I could

 

[RadaMillz]

the future of tech workers

 

[null]

Let people work remotely. Break this tie between location and work.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

If you’re an internet company working at home should be the standard

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

A lot of major companies should do this. There are no negatives to it for either side

 

[mr. smoke weed]

Commercial real estate about to take a prolonged hit

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

Commercial real estate about to take a prolonged hit

Which is a good thing imo