India Today : Mar 03, 2020, 04:13 PM
Tech: Twitter on Monday encouraged all its employees to work from home. The company, which has around 5,000 employees the world over has made this development owing to the on-going scare of Coronavirus or COVID-19 scare.With the growing number of patients getting affected with the endemic every day, the company wants to take precaution to keep its employees and partners safe. The main purpose for the company to ask its members to work from home is to curb travel and restrict the growth of infection.
Twitter's head of human resources, Jennifer Christie, in an official blog post wrote, "Our goal is to lower the probability of the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus for us - and the world around us."
"We are working to make sure internal meetings, all hands, and other important tasks are optimized for remote participation. We recognize that working from home is not ideal for some job functions," Christie added.
Twitter’s blog post notes that it was mandatory for staff in Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea to work remotely. "Working from home will be mandatory for employees based in our Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea offices due in part to government restrictions."
Twitter, on February 29, had banned all non-essential business travel and events for its workers.
"While this is a big change for us, we have already been moving towards a more distributed workforce that's increasingly remote. We're a global service and we're committed to enabling anyone, anywhere to work at Twitter," the blog had read.
Twitter is not the only company which has asked its employees to work from home.Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, wrote on Twitter, "An update on COVID - 19. We're asking some employees to start working from home this week. Working from home is not a complete solution, but it may help slow the growth of infections."
Google Cloud has cancelled its biggest annual conference, owing to the endemic.The conference was to be held in April in San Francisco.
Covid-19 is the disease caused by a new strain of Coronavirus, Sars-CoV-2, a pathogen first detected in a cluster of mysterious pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China.
The virus has now spread rapidly to nearly every continent, covering more than 60 countries and killing over 3,000.
Twitter's head of human resources, Jennifer Christie, in an official blog post wrote, "Our goal is to lower the probability of the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus for us - and the world around us."
"We are working to make sure internal meetings, all hands, and other important tasks are optimized for remote participation. We recognize that working from home is not ideal for some job functions," Christie added.
Twitter’s blog post notes that it was mandatory for staff in Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea to work remotely. "Working from home will be mandatory for employees based in our Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea offices due in part to government restrictions."
Twitter, on February 29, had banned all non-essential business travel and events for its workers.
"While this is a big change for us, we have already been moving towards a more distributed workforce that's increasingly remote. We're a global service and we're committed to enabling anyone, anywhere to work at Twitter," the blog had read.
Twitter is not the only company which has asked its employees to work from home.Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, wrote on Twitter, "An update on COVID - 19. We're asking some employees to start working from home this week. Working from home is not a complete solution, but it may help slow the growth of infections."
Google Cloud has cancelled its biggest annual conference, owing to the endemic.The conference was to be held in April in San Francisco.
Covid-19 is the disease caused by a new strain of Coronavirus, Sars-CoV-2, a pathogen first detected in a cluster of mysterious pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China.
The virus has now spread rapidly to nearly every continent, covering more than 60 countries and killing over 3,000.