The big story The past few weeks have involved a flurry of tech companies surfacing details about their plans to return to offices in the coming months, which made Twitter’s announcement this week that they would be allowing employees to permanently work from home — even after the COVID-19 crisis — quite the development. Twitter’s note to TechCrunch detailed that this would depend on an employee’s role at the company. We were uniquely positioned to respond quickly and allow folks to work from home given our emphasis on decentralization and supporting a distributed workforce capable of working from anywhere. The past few months have proven we can make that work. So if our employees are in a role and situation that enables them to work from home and they want to continue to do so forever, we will make that happen. If not, our offices will be their warm and welcoming selves, with some additional precautions, when we feel it's safe to return. Many remote work advocates have kind of theorized this as a lingering trend form shelter-in-place, but Twitter’s early commitment cements the advance as something to watch. Silicon Valley wisdom has largely asserted that there’s an incalculable advantage to “being here,” something that has come to the dismay of workers keen point out skyrocketing cost of living in the Bay Area. Twitter’s exit may not kickstart an exodus but it is an interesting data point that should push Bay Area real estate firms to sweat and startup leaders to ask themselves some questions. |
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