After twitter, Square Inc. also announces permanent work from home policy
Jack Dorsey founded a mobile payments company, Square Inc. has recently announced its permanent work from home policy for most of the employees. The recent announcement comes just a week after Twitter CEO and Co-founder Jack Dorsey did the same for Twitter employees.
A “distributed” workforce model would expand the company’s hiring pool, Dorsey said at the J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference last week.
“We can get talent anywhere. There’s a lot of folks out there that do not want to move to San Francisco. They feel comfortable working in a much smaller office or just home,” Dorsey said at the conference.
He said, “We want employees to be able to work where they feel most creative and productive, moving forward, Squares will be able to work from home permanently, even once offices begin to reopen. Over the past several weeks, we’ve learned a lot about what it takes for people to effectively perform roles outside of an office, and we will continue to learn as we go.”
The company has more than 3,000 employees. The new policy will apply to teams that are able to do their jobs remotely. Those that need to come into the office, like security personnel and facilities, will continue to do so.
Employees at the mobile payments company, square have been working remotely since early March. Facebook, Google, and Microsoft all moved to remote work around the same time.
