Employers have had to contend with a flood of new legal
considerations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. To survive under various
state and local shelter-in-place mandates, employers have
instituted remote (or work-from-home) protocols – some
willingly and some out of necessity. Now, many states are
permitting employers to reopen in phases.
As employers work towards bringing workers back on site, some
high-profile employers, like Twitter, have made the business
decision to continue to allow their employees to work remotely for
the indefinite future. Given these developments, employers and
employees alike may be questioning what the future holds for their
work environments.
On May 12, 2020, Twitter announced that most of its employees
may choose to work from home indefinitely or (when the time comes)
return to the physical work environment. This COVID-19-inspired
decision comes at a time when companies are realizing the benefits
of remote work. The Twitter model calls
