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After Twitter, Jack Dorsey announces permanent work-from-home policy for Square employees

Jack Dorsey-founded 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. According to a Verge report, Square employees will now be able to work from home even […]

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Corporate Future of Work Talent Ecosystem

Twitter employees to continue working from homes, “forever”

Social media major Twitter recently announced its plans to allow many of its employees to work-from-home permanently, even after the coronavirus pandemic passes. According to an internal email sent by CEO Jack Dorsey to employees, the company is unlikely to open its offices before September. It also said that some jobs that require physical presence, […]

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Executive Movements

Twitter announces appointment of Fei-Fei Li to Board of Directors

Twitter, Inc. announced the appointment of Dr. Fei-Fei Li to the Company’s Board of Directors as a new independent director, effective immediately. Prior to this role, Dr. Fei-Fei Li was working as inaugural Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and the Denning Family Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute (HAI). She […]

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Corporate Organisation Culture

Infosys terminates employee over controversial social media post on coronavirus

Indian tech giant Infosys recently announced that it has sacked one of its employees who wrote an “inappropriate post” on Twitter about the coronavirus pandemic. Announcing the termination of the employee’s services through Twitter, Infosys said, “Infosys has completed its investigation on the social media post by one of its employees, and we believe that […]

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Twitter asks staff to work from home amid Coronavirus outbreak

As the novel coronavirus is spreading rapidly and cost more than 3,000 lives, corporations and organizations around the world are feeling the heat of it. Companies are now facing battles on two ends- sustaining the business and safeguarding employees. The outbreak has now led to the world’s largest work-from-home experiment to take place. Companies like […]

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Does money bring happiness?

If someday, someone gives you $9k to spend it the way you want to, will it improve your happiness? For some people, it might, but we can’t be sure of everyone. That’s what a Japanese Billionaire is trying to find out.  Japanese fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa will give away more than $9mn to 1,000 people […]

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Twitter India head Taranjeet Singh Quits! Balaji Krish named as the Interim Chief.

Taranjeet Singh, Country Director, Twitter India has decided to step down from the company. Balaji Krish the company’s global head of revenue strategy and operations has been named as the interim country head. Before joining Twitter,  he was Sales Director, South Asia for BBC Advertising and handled the  commercial operations for BBC News. Earlier he […]