Amid Coronavirus Outbreak Twitter encourages its employee to Work from Home

Last Updated on: 4 March, 2020 | 11:33 AM

Twitter has told its 5,000-strong workforce globally to figure from home – making it mandatory for workers based in Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea offices – as new coronavirus (COVID-19) spread in new territories. The micro-blogging platform, which has already put restrictions on non-essential travel, said that US offices would still be open for workers who feel the necessity to return face to face.

Twitter launches Policy for betterment of the employees

Twitter is asking employees across the world to figure from home over concerns about the spread of the coronavirus. Monday, the corporate, led by CEO Jack Dorsey, said they were “strongly encouraging” employees to remain home. About 5,000 employees from Twitter are going to be affected. The corporate has also suspended all non-critical business travel and events.

What the Policy says..

Twitter’s work-from-home policy is mandatory for workers in Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea, thanks to government restrictions. The corporate said it’ll work to form its meetings and internal tasks doable remotely. Outside of the mandatory limits, offices will remain open for those that got to are available or like better to work there. Meanwhile, the corporate is increasing the deep cleaning and sanitizing of all its workspaces and can offer pre-packaged food options for workers.

Other Companies who are joining the League

Twitter and Square’s policies are a number of the foremost cautious as tech companies still crackdown on travel, pull out of trade shows, and cancel significant events out of fear of the rapidly spreading virus. On Monday, Google announced that it had been morphing its Google Cloud Next conference, which had been scheduled for April in San Francisco, into a streamed event, while Microsoft said it wouldn’t host its MVP Summit later this month near Seattle. That followed an announcement from Facebook last week, which canceled its most publicized annual event, its F8 developer conference. Meanwhile, a petition with about 20,000 signatures is circling within the hopes that organizers will cancel the Austin’s annual South by Southwest, a conference Facebook and Twitter already pulled out.

Twitter is a global company & the safety of our people and those around us is our top priority. We've been closely monitoring #coronavirus COVID-19 developments, & wanted to share our current plans & travel policies. There will be more updates to this policy in the coming days.

— Jennifer Christie (@jenchristiehr) March 1, 2020

Sources : news18

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