Twitter Tells Employees to Work From Home As Coronavirus Death Toll Climbs

Twitter has announced that employees are encouraged to work from home in an effort to stop the spread of a... [Gizmodo]( March 3, 2020 [Twitter Tells Employees to Work From Home As Coronavirus Death Toll Climbs]( [Twitter has announced that employees are encouraged to work from home in an effort to stop the spread of a novel coronavirus that has infected at least 105 people in 15 states and killed six people in the U.S. The San Francisco-based social media company is believed to be the first major U.S. firm to announce a work-from-home policy as companies around the world enact new plans to fight COVID-19.]( [never tweet]( [Hey, Steve Wozniak: What the Fuck?]( [There’s a lot of information about coronavirus online right now, some of it useful, much of it alarming, and even more of it just confusing noise. 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