Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
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Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
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#2I have a feeling a lot of companies will follow suit. It saves up huge costs in real-estate by not having to provide seats to people.
It also might just open up more companies to hire from any time zone.
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#3cool news, but "forever" is a big word, nonetheless
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#4And so begins the bay area salary bubble pop
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#5cool news, but "forever" is a big word, nonetheless
I wonder if it’ll come to have the same meaning as “unlimited vacation”, a vague policy that in practice, is used unofficially in job evaluations to implicitly punish employees who take advantage of the policy.
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#6I have a feeling a lot of companies will follow suit. It saves up huge costs in real-estate by not having to provide seats to people. It also might just open up more companies to hire from any time zone.
Time zone is gonna be tougher. Going from sync to async requires a big shift and most big companies have enough trouble with communication.
One other benefit to companies - maybe they won’t pay a premium anymore for people who live in expensive areas.
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#7I have a feeling a lot of companies will follow suit. It saves up huge costs in real-estate by not having to provide seats to people. It also might just open up more companies to hire from any time zone.
These advantages have always existed, and yet most of the FANG have resisted WFH policies until now.
Personally, I find it pretty funny how this "work that can only be done well in person, in an office" can suddenly be done remotely no problem when the government mandates that everybody stays home.
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#8They aren't the only ones. We've always been supportive of people working from home anyway, but from here on out I'll be actively encouraging my team to work from home as much as possible. Apart from anything else coronavirus hasn't magically gone away just because we've passed the peak of infection.
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#9It would be good if more tech companies embraced this. I bet if they need tools for themselves we’ll see a lot of progress in remote collaboration tools.
To make this work I wonder how executives will adapt. In my company the higher you go up the chain, the more they want face to face communication. I guess most top executives are people persons so not seeing things like body language or using body language takes away an important skill set of theirs.
Re: Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
#10I have a feeling a lot of companies will follow suit. It saves up huge costs in real-estate by not having to provide seats to people. It also might just open up more companies to hire from any time zone.
Time zone is gonna be tougher. Going from sync to async requires a big shift and most big companies have enough trouble with communication. One other benefit to companies - maybe they won’t pay a premium anymore for people who live in expensive areas.
Twitter and other global companies have been managing the time zone factor and using online chat, video calls, etc. for some time now.