Even before the coronavirus outbreak hit the US, Twitter was preparing for a future that relied heavily on remote work — and that included employing new tactics to help employees work well together from afar.
That’s according to a new piece by the Washington Post’s Elizabeth Dwoskin, which explores Twitter’s focus on creating a “distributed” workforce, which has been years in the making. The idea was sparked by a successful day working at home for Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in January 2018, which led him to send a company-wide email celebrating the merits of working outside the office.
“We should always optimize for where people feel their most creative, and I’d love to see us be a lot more flexible about working from home,” Dorsey wrote, according to the Post.
Since then, Dorsey has been outspoken about decentralizing Twitter, which he has described as “the whole promise of the internet” in the first place.
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