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Twitter employees can work at home forever

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Twitter has told employees they can work from home forever. Workers can work from home even after the pandemic ends. Twitter will decide when to open its offices. That will not be before September. Workers will decide when to go back. When offices open, it will be "careful" and "office by office".

Twitter is in a good position for workers to work at home. Workers can use Zoom to have meetings. Twitter can help workers at home very quickly. Its workers can work from anywhere. Workers have successfully worked at home for a few months. Twitter said, "if they want to continue to do so forever," they can.

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Twitter has told many of it employees they can work from home forever. The boss, Jack Dorsey, told workers they can work from home even after the COVID-19 pandemic ends. Twitter said it will decide when it will open its offices, but that will not happen before September. It said workers will decide when to come back. It added when they open, it will be "careful, intentional, office by office and gradual".

Twitter is in a good position for workers to work at home. Workers can contact each other on video chat platforms like Zoom. Twitter said it could help workers at home very quickly. It said its workers are "capable of working from anywhere". It added that workers have successfully worked at home in the past few months. It said: "If they want to continue to do so forever, we will make that happen."

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Twitter has told many of its employees they can work from home forever if they want. CEO Jack Dorsey told workers on Tuesday that they will be allowed to work from home even after the coronavirus pandemic ends. Twitter said: "Opening offices will be our decision. When and if our employees come back, will be their [decision]." Twitter was one of the first companies to let workers work from home in the pandemic. Twitter said most of its offices would not open before September. It added when they do open, it would be "careful, intentional, office by office and gradual".

Twitter is in a good position to have workers working from their home. Many employees and bosses can contact each other on video chat platforms like Zoom. Twitter said: "We were uniquely positioned to respond quickly and allow folks to work from home." It said its workforce is "capable of working from anywhere". It added: "The past few months have proven we can make [working from home] work. 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."

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The boss of Twitter has told many of his employees that they can work from home forever if they want to. CEO Jack Dorsey told many workers on Tuesday that they will be allowed to work from home even after the coronavirus pandemic ends. A Twitter spokesperson said: "Opening offices will be our decision. When and if our employees come back, will be their [decision]." Twitter was one of the first companies to allow workers to work from home after the COVID-19 pandemic started. The spokesperson said it would not be, "one of the first to return to offices". Twitter said most of its offices would not open before September. It added when they do open, it would be "careful, intentional, office by office and gradual".

Twitter said it was in a good position to have many of its workers working from their home. It is an online company so many employees and bosses can contact each other on video conferencing platforms like Zoom. The company said: "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." It added: "The past few months have proven we can make [working from home] work. 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."

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