Google, Coinbase, and Twitter are all telling some employees to work from home this week amid the spread of coronavirus
Other tech companies follow suit
Twitter is now recommending that all employees around the world, nearly 5,000 in total, work from home. The company announced its recommendation out of an "abundance of caution" in, after it suspended all non-critical travel for employees and its CEO Jack Dorsey opted out of attending the SXSW conference in Austin later this month.
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