Twitter Employees Can Now Work From Home Indefinitely! Will This Be The New Trend?
Twitter Employees Can Now Work From Home Indefinitely! Will This Be The New Trend?
There have been a ton of quarantine memes poking fun at the traditional 9 to 5 schedule. Many jokingly suggested that quarantine proves that you don’t have to be in the office 8 hours to be productive. Well for Twitter this is no laughing matter. In fact it’s their new reality.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sent an email out to employees that could change the face of corporate America as we know it. CEO Jack Dorsey stated that employees now have the option to work from home indefinitely. That’s right you heard it correctly. Hundreds of folks who were held up in cubicles will now have the luxury of punching in the clock from the comfort of their living room. The only exception are the jobs that require a physical presence, such as those that maintain servers
A Twitter spokesperson stated “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. We’ll continue to be, and we’ll continue to put the safety of our people and communities first.”
In a recent article in Buzzfeed, Twitter human resources head Jennifer Christie told stated that t 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.”
Although, this decision was put into action because of the pandemic, Dorsey went on to state that this was the company’s plan all along. He went on to state it’s unlikely Twitter would open its offices before September, and that business travel would be canceled until then as well.
Will other company’s follow suit? We don’t know only time will tell!
