We understand this is an unprecedented step, but these are unprecedented times. Our top priority remains the health and safety of our Tweeps, and we also have a responsibility to support our communities, those who are vulnerable, and the healthcare providers who are on the front lines of this pandemic. To continue this push, we are moving beyond our earlier guidance of “strongly encouraging work from home” provided on March 2 and have now informed all employees globally they must work from home.

Moving to mandatory work from home globally + supporting our employees That will remain our top priority as we work through the unknowns of the coming months. We’re proud of the early action we took to protect the health of our employees and our communities. We will assess 2021 events later this year.

There will also be no business travel before September, with very few exceptions, and no in-person company events for the rest of 2020.

It will be careful, intentional, office by office and gradual. When we do decide to open offices, it also won’t be a snap back to the way it was before.

With very few exceptions, offices won’t open before September.

Opening offices will be our decision, when and if our employees come back, will be theirs.

Here’s how we’re thinking about the next few months: If not, our offices will be their warm and welcoming selves, with some additional precautions, when we feel it’s safe to return. So 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. The past few months have proven we can make that work.

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. Twitter was one of the first companies to go to a work from home model in the face of COVID-19, but we don’t anticipate being one of the first to return to offices.

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