Twitter is making it mandatory for all employees around the world to work from home in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
After “strongly encouraging” it earlier this month, Twitter said today that working from home is now mandatory for all employees around the world due to COVID-19 concerns.
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Twitter
Jennifer Christie
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Keeping our employees and partners safe during #coronavirus
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@twittercomms
@twittercomms
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Today we informed all Twitter employees globally they must work from home to support worldwide efforts to stop the spread of #COVID19. This moves beyond our earlier guidance of “strongly encouraging work from home.” https://blog.twitter.com/...
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@brenden3lee
Brenden Lee
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To support all employees globally following instruction to work from home due to COVID-19, Twitter will: + Reimburse expense to set up home office + Continue paying contractors & hourly workers + Cover additional expenses parents incur if daycares close https://techcrunch.com/...
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@inafried
Ina Fried
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Of note, @Twitter isn't just mandating employees work from home. It is also -paying hourly workers -paying costs to set up home office -paying for additional child care needed as traditional child care options close https://www.axios.com/...
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@jolingkent
Jo Ling Kent
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NEW: Twitter is now telling all employees *GLOBALLY* they “must work from home” after initially encouraging staffers to do so. #coronavirus #COVID19 https://twitter.com/...
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@carlquintanilla
Carl Quintanilla
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Before: “strongly encouraged” Now: “.. must.” $TWTR https://twitter.com/...
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@xboxp3
Phil Spencer
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E3 has always been an important moment for Team Xbox. Given this decision, this year we'll celebrate the next generation of gaming with the @Xbox community and all who love to play via an Xbox digital event. Details on timing and more in the coming weeks https://www.theesa.com/..…
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@ubisoft
@ubisoft
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An update regarding E3 2020. https://twitter.com/...
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@devolverdigital
@devolverdigital
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Cancel your E3 flights and hotels, y'all.
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@jasonschreier
Jason Schreier
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More news from me: Warner Bros. Games was planning to do an E3 press conference this year for the first time, to talk about Batman, Harry Potter, and Rocksteady's game among others. Remains to be seen what they'll do now https://kotaku.com/...
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@exabeam
@exabeam
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We recently learned and are saddened to share that two of our employees have tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19). Please be vigilant in monitoring yourself for symptoms and following guidelines to prevent possible infection. Our thoughts are with our colleagues. https://tw…
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@ign
@ign
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In its official statement on E3 2020's cancellation, the Entertainment Software Association says it's exploring options to coordinate “an online experience to showcase industry announcements and news in June 2020.” https://www.ign.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@yoshi_onochin
Yoshinori Ono
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Its unfortunate,but it can't be avoided. It was way beyond our imagination.I look forward to meetingWorldWarriors/FGC at some event in some future.This is tougher than I thought about #CPT2020 /otherFTGevents.We'll do our best to live up to ur expectations https://www.theesa.com/…
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@lilcin3
Cindy Walker
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No E3 this year - of all years - is a TOTAL bummer. But our #XSX campaign so far has been about being bold and trying new things so we will be tackling this new curveball with that same attitude - which means plenty of new ideas and great things ahead! #xbox #ForTheFans https://t…
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@jamiemoranuk
Jamie Moran
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Health comes first. I'll look forward to the Digital Event 🙂 https://twitter.com/...
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@bdsams
Brad Sams
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Now do CES https://twitter.com/...
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@aarongreenberg
@aarongreenberg
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Bummed to miss celebrating @E3 in person with all of our fans, media, and partners. With that said we have an incredible amount of exciting things in the works and team is going to continue to work hard to share all of that with you in a digital format. The Xbox show must go on! …
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@harada_tekken
Katsuhiro Harada
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Wow...For the first time in about 10 or more years, I will spend my June 10 birthday in Japan, not Los Angeles. E3中止か、 6月10日誕.日 を日本で迎 ; えるのは一 ; 体何年ぶり ; になるんだ ; ・・・ — E3 2020 Officially Canceled https://www.gamespot.com/...
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@yugstar
Guy ‘Yug’ Blomberg
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E3 cancelled 😳 This is such an unprecedented and wild time to be working in the gaming events industry. https://twitter.com/...
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@fourzerotwo
Robert Bowling
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No E3 2020. Time to go back to finding out about new game releases the old way — from your friend who has an uncle who “works at Nintendo” and said Ocarina of Time 2 is coming to PlayStation. https://twitter.com/...
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@business
@business
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The coronavirus outbreak has scuppered E3, the world's biggest video games show slated for June https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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@callmevlad
Vlad Magdalin
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~40,000 (mostly out of town) attendees were at the RSA conference in downtown San Francisco two weeks ago. Now there are multiple cases that are traced back to that event... reinforces the point of maximum social distancing, since it's been spreading for weeks mostly silently. ht…
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@sundarpichai
Sundar Pichai
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Contributing to social distancing if you are able to, helps the overall community spread and most importantly, will help offset the peak loads through critical healthcare systems and also saves it for people in need. (based on expert advice). Please contribute if you are able to …
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@johnkoetsier
John Koetsier
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Remembering those times when the role at Google “just wouldn't work out” because I didn't happen to live in (or want to move to) Mountain View >> Google has asked all of its North America employees to work from home to prevent coronavirus spread https://edition.cnn.com/...
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@jolingkent
Jo Ling Kent
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Confirmed — Google is recommending *all* of its North American employees work from home due to #coronavirus concerns. Biggest company to do this so far. Parent company Alphabet has more than 100,000 employees most of whom work in the US.
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@cc_chapman
C.C. Chapman
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“Our goal is to reduce the density of people in offices, which expert advice suggests may slow down the spread of #COVID-19 and reduce the burden on the local community and health resources.” - @Google https://www.cnbc.com/...
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@inafried
Ina Fried
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Google has also set up a fund to ensure sick pay for temporary workers, hourly workers and contractors globally. https://blog.google/...
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@robaeprice
Rob Price
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Scoop: Google is now recommending all of its tens of thousands of North American employees work from home due to COVID-19. It's one of the biggest remote-work orders by any company to date. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...