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by fbelzile 2306 days ago
Twitter should look into on how working from home affects productivity.

I'm sure it'll decrease in the short term. Although, if this goes on long enough, it would be neat to see if people re-establish strong lines of communication and if there are any productivity gains from certain teams.

Obviously, I'm not hoping that the virus affects peoples lives longer, but they might as well get some data while there are government restrictions.

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It requires different management styles and tools. I doubt anyone is going to try particularly hard to make it work well.
The lost productivity from WFH will probably be less than the potential lost productivity from infected and dead employees...
I believe that’s not the point of the comment. The point is that working from home is something employees desire in general, and this is a good opportunity to see if large scale work from home can still function well for a large organization like Twitter. It would be encouraging if they can make it work.
Eh, you should meet some of my coworkers.