While the CDC has recommended that employers have a remote work strategy in place should the coronavirus reach outbreak status in the U.S., Twitter appears to be the first major company to implement such a strategy and ask its entire workforce to work from home.
After sharing in a March 1 blog post that Twitter was suspending all non-critical employee business travel and events around the world to prevent the spread of COVID-19, company leaders updated the post the next day to share that they are "strongly encouraging all employees globally to work from home if they're able."
The remote work policy is mandatory for all Twitter employees in the company's Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea offices, where government restrictions are already keeping most workers out of the office.
While most other major companies have yet to implement similar policies outside of areas heavily affected by the coronavirus, most of the 8,000 employees at Google's European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, were asked to work from home on March 3 after an employee reported experiencing flulike symptoms, Business Insider reports.
Read more about how the tech industry is responding to coronavirus here, and find a list of technology events canceled due to the virus here.
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