A day after Google announced it will make most Bay Area workers come back to offices three days a week, San Francisco social media giant Twitter said it would open its its offices here and around the world March 15 but that employees can work remotely permanently.
“Wherever you feel most productive and creative is where you will work and that includes working at home full-time forever,” Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal said in a message to employees posted Thursday on Twitter.
The company, formerly led by Jack Dorsey, closed its offices about two years ago, with Agrawal noting that some workers, including in data centers, have been coming to company workplaces because their jobs require it. Dorsey in May 2020 first announced the permanent work-from-home option.
Most Twitter employees prefer to work some days in the office and some days at home, Agrawal said in his message.
However, mixing remote and in-office work will be “much, much harder,” Agrawal warned. “Anyone who has joined a meeting remotely while others are in a conference room knows this pain,” he wrote. “There will be lots of challenges in the coming months, and we’ll need to be proactive, intentional, learn and adapt.”
Google on Wednesday said it was imposing a “hybrid” workplace model starting this month that will require most employees in the Bay Area and select offices elsewhere to attend offices three days a week. The Mountain View digital advertising titan said it would give workers until April 4 to make a full transition to the hybrid scheme.
Source: www.mercurynews.com