We recently asked our fellow colleagues at Automattic:
How are you taking care of yourself during the pandemic, or making work from home more manageable for yourself and your loved ones?
Here are 161 of their best answers.
Tag Archives: WFH
How Zillow Is Adapting to Distributed Work
The Seattle-based real estate company Zillow Group announced recently that its employees can continue to work from home through 2020. Zillow CEO Rich Barton wrote on Twitter that his views about distributed work had been “turned upside down over the past two months. I expect this will have a lasting influence on the future of work … and home.” Zillow has more than 5,200 full-time employees — they also recently launched a virtual onboarding program for new employees.
Matt Mullenweg joined Barton for an all-company town hall about remote work, in which he shared his views about the benefits (autonomy, efficiency, access to global talent) and best practices (API: Assume Positive Intent). Here’s more from their chat:
Twitter Will Let Employees Work from Home Permanently
Millions of people have been forced to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the big question remains: Which companies will change the way they work forever?
Twitter is now making the call. It’s permanent.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey emailed employees on Tuesday telling them that they’d be allowed to work from home permanently, even after the coronavirus pandemic lockdown passes. Some jobs that require physical presence, such as maintaining servers, will still require employees to come in.
“We’ve been very thoughtful in how we’ve approached this from the time we were one of the first companies to move to a work-from-home model,” a Twitter spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. “We’ll continue to be, and we’ll continue to put the safety of our people and communities first.”