Twitter is giving its U.S. employees Election Day off and offering global employees paid time off to vote in national elections.
Jack Dorsey, chief executive officer of Twitter Inc. and Square Inc., speaks during an Empowering Entrepreneurs events at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday, April 2, 2019.is giving its U.S. employees Election Day off and offering global employees paid time off to vote in national elections, the company told employees Tuesday.
"For all other elections, if you do not have enough time outside of working hours to vote or your country doesn't already have a process in place to address this, you should take the time you need to do so and you will be compensated for the time off," the memo said.
Twitter is a biased political hack that makes it’s money by providing a forum for division and hate!
zunderwhelmed ❤️ nice 😏
In these times we got to think there's more behind this decision.
morgfair SHOULD BE A NATIONAL HOLIDAY
Dorsey bc the douche
morgfair Make US election day a national holiday. Pass it on.
About time all companies took this action. The current administration will not as they have the most to lose.
I don’t understand why elections are held during the working week in the USA. Surely this has a significant impact on the number of working class voting, resulting in the wealthy having a disproportionate influence on election outcomes. Why not hold elections on a Saturday?
I hope jack and Twitter get all of traitor Zuckerberg's lost revenues.
TO SAVE THE ECONOMY AND SAVE LIVES, how about we try the policy of paying people to stay home so that they do not have to debate providing income for their family or putting themselves or family at health risk by going to work prematurely? TrickleUpEconomy
Excellent!
How progressive! I live in a place where employers have to give employees time off to vote if they askfor/need it it
MarkusJRussell
Seems to me jack could be doing more to regulate his platform according to the TOS agreed to when signing up and remove bots/fake accounts. How about actually using the AI technology you have! Twitter
LuciaRendn4 Hey Mark Zuckerberg. What do you have planned for Election Day
LuciaRendn4 oh-oh, Donnie...
PrincessBravato I find this all very strange! In Canada, we have always been allowed 4 hours off of our day at work, with pay, to go and vote. This has been a standard my entire life.
jack getting more handsome every day😉
oliverbarry This is good ❤️
Wow what heros *beeing sarcastic*
Vote by mail and it’s not necessary, but thanks?
For this jack , guess we tweeps can forgive the no edit button... well at least until the next time we need it. 😉
Jack and co at it again. Thanks for always taking the lead.jack
jack is a liberal democrat. look how pissed he is when MAGATraitor slop bucket summoned him. love it when dorsey puts him on a leash. all business benefit when lib dems own them. ShunTheMAGA StarveTheMAGA DoNotHireMAGA they bring death & disease to your door
This needs to be a big ass movement. Hopefully one day we’ll look back and say “how did people ever vote without Election Day as a federal holiday?!”
In the mean time Mr. Elon Musk, says u can take the day off using ur PTO and bring back receipt u voted. 😂
BJHare Wow, I'm so impressed. This is what major companies should be doing. Thank you, Twitter!
PeopleMatter9 Face Book will be next to announce only their white Republican employees will be given the day off paid, to vote!
YES‼️‼️
Glad Colorado has mail in ballots so i don't have to worry about taking a day off
timihaworth Build it... they will come! Thank you!!
Awesome Jack
Oh cool, so while their employer is enabling Russian bots and misinformation to destroy Democracy, they can go vote. Nice.
All companies should do this! It’s ridiculous that it’s not a national Holiday!
ocpharm Election Day should be a National Paid Holiday so everyone gets a chance to vote!
Parler might give layoffs to the whole company soon enough.
A grown ass man wearing a beanie......
I thought they supported protesting the American flag.
Well...half of Twitter employees cannot vote because they're o H1B1 visa but i bet they will enjoy a day off anyway.
This is groundbreaking - I hope this is adopted by every company in America!
Yes!!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👊🏿
Kris_Sacrebleu Should be a Federal Holiday even though gop would resist.
irishchick814 Their worst nightmare is that Americans will actually get out and vote! EndVoterSuppression RIPGOP VoteBlue2020
Whenever I see pics of this pale-skinned whitey, it makes me think of satanic cults. Don’t know why.
Bravo Twitter. When is the last time Zuckerberg or Facebook led the way on issues like this? My guess is NEVER but I may be wrong. Maybe Mark is too busy capitalizing on civil unrest or letting realDonaldTrump spread misinformation to do the right thing.
Cool. No need to mail it in
SpiroAgnewGhost I think Jack needs to start eating meat again. He looks like a zombie.
SpiroAgnewGhost As it always should have been if Republicans weren't traitors to America.
In my country in Election Day no one goes to work so everybody can vote
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Personally, instead of fireworks on the 4th of July, it should be a national holiday and primary voting day in prep for November.
If trump wins are they going to pay for councilors?
Thank you jack VoteBlue2020 VoteBlueToSaveAmerica
SpiroAgnewGhost Nice jack!
Time to defund Twitter
Twitter where the haters come to play and the worst of society shows up for more.
It should be!!! We don't need Columbus day!
jack Thanks Jack.
Watch out is bidden wins🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
2B_Painfree We don’t have to wait for the government to do it. Companies can do it. Ask Jack if he is going to do this for Square too (his other company). Good job Jack!
Hopefully, every employer in the United States will do that!
I am so on teamdorsey but he seriously needs to lose the beard. It's too medieval-Machiavellian looking.
Because it takes all day to vote. 😂
Hopefully twitter also encourages employees to use the day off to serve as election judges. Most judges are senior citizens, high risk & can’t perform their civic duty like they want to.
Great idea.
msue1000 Thank you Twitter
Thank you Twitter. Vote.
Sweet they we can all show up at the polling stations together
Fvk antiblack Twitter
You really think they will vote..
Hey, that's like 12 more voters!
He’s running
SunnyDays024 In many countries elections are held on a Sunday, so.
Pretty logicle to give your liberal team a day off because soon as Trump is gone no one will care about Twitter so they might not have jobs to come back to
Really 😅
jack is a traitor to the United States of America.
Ok. ONE good thing that Twitter has done, recently.
Shares holders must be ecstatic having company acting as political activism!
Game changer
Fortune 500s getting ready to shake your tree to the roots.
Only if you vote Democrat. Bet if you vote Trump, you get pinkslipped.
Presidential Election Day needs to be a national holiday so poor and low paid people don’t have to choose between a sorely needed days pay and exercising their democratic right to vote. TheDemocrats SenateDems JoeBiden KamalaHarris
Jack enables pedophilia
So no Twitter employees will need a mail-in ballot, right?
With the push to mail-in ballots?
Early Voting....pick your date
+100 Thanks Jack, Biz & Twitter !!
You mean like how they do in most developed countries?
Jack D looks like a serial killer😫😫
Wonderful to hear.
Why the holiday when your intent from the beginning was to use mail-in ballots?
Since Trump has made Twitter Great 👍 again I’m sure the employee’s know what box to check ✅
Well 100% turnout then (all D)
follow the lead
Fantastic!!!!!
This’ll be a great way to get voters in the booths and using their civic powers.
🤔
Twitter is giving its U.S. employees eating contest Day off and offering global employees paid time off to vote in national elections.
4xInsight As it should be. 👏👏👏
Pedoboy
Yessss. To vote for President Trump.
He need to take a day off and get a haircut. He looks like White Trash & the Alt Right. Be a professional.
how will we know what is happening if you all go home?!
Apple don’t let me copy and paste
Paying people to vote. Guarantee if someone working there says they are republican they aren't getting paid day off
As long as they vote as Jack tells them to, if not don't bother returning
AHEM Target walmart yumbrands kroger Starbucks McDonalds 👀
Apparently election meddling by censorship of Trump and supporters on their platform hasn’t given them enough confidence dementia can win🤷🏽♂️
Just give them 5 days off a week jack.
If voting is as important as everyone claims, Election Day should be a national holiday or as suggested, should be Veterans Day.
Unless they're conservative....then they'll get an attendance deduction.
It will be just another day off. The people that don’t vote aren’t voting bc they are have to work.
Jack out of the box
Presidential election day should be a holiday. Period. Its once every four years. This wouldn't be an extraordinary burden on employers.
It actually should be. Hard to vote when you have a job.
Most of Europe votes on Sunday
Indirectly paying/bribing people to vote for who?there should be no money involve in an election !!!!seanhannity realDonaldTrump
People are SWITCHING OUT from Twitter and moving to . Twitter started off preaching free speech but soon they started BLOCKING, DELAYING, DELETING, BANNING, SUSPENDING and SO MANY other censorship practices. Twitter is SICK
Will the election be canceled\\postponed because of Covid?
Jack
I love the free market and free enterprise
Its all good and well until they have competition.
Just this year, I bet...twitter?
Good no conservatives will be banned on election day
gmarshall1965 The Democratic thing to do. Now ban tRump for life.
Voting is important
Dorsey building cred I Hope Zuk is paying attention.
This isn't standard across the US?
Well done Twitter
I need a day off to mail in my ballot too because the line, to drop the prepaid postage envelope, is too long.
Both Trump and Biden are engaged in rubbing israeli BALLS ‼️
Now if they'd just remove a racist account that has had multiple strikes against it and repeatedly breaks TOS, that would be greeeeeattt. (It's realDonaldTrump if you need help TwitterSupport TwitterSafety jack )
Well done, Twitter
Fantastic.
Switch to Crowd Governance through Internet and online crowd checking of voting to prevent cheating.
And screening out the top conservative voices months before a national election. Welcome to national socialism giving you the truth we want you to have.
He is brilliant smart and benevolent jack
.good Vote
What about early voting and the fact that all the Democrats are pushing for mail in voting and twitter employees are all working from home? Shit I voted in September or early October last election.
But who will censor conservative free speech if they are off
He is the Man!
JustCallMeSio how many times I gotta ask if yall need a remote janitor?
Self-important pompous ass 🤣
marciadorsey SoundsLikeYang YG❤️ jack
Only if they agree to vote Democrat, fucking shameful Twitter. twexit twexit2parler
Either there's a dearth of public pictures of jack or he always looks like a Portland lumberjack.
You idiots paying attention SpeakerPelosi senatemajldr
The majority of companies provide employees with flex schedules to vote and / or time off already.
This SOB should be treated like a gay, or Christian or Jew in Iran...
He will b in deep shit. Trying to manipulate election!
You want a vote to increase your pay cheque?
Nice Jack
This is the best news of the year
Why is this a news most of the MNCs I have worked with so far gives the election day off as paid time off!!
President Trump NEEDS to join Parler, gab and minds! Get off Twitter president Trump and we will follow by the MILLIONS!
Because it's too hard to go BEFORE or AFTER work
Jack is really setting the bar out here.
I dont understand why voting couldn't be done over a week long period
Wonderful!
Long live JD 🗳 🙌
I couldn’t think of a worse idea.
For what purpose? Twitter
Is he going to pay for busses to take them to the booth too?
Why ski hat?
All day off and getting paid? I could probably get 20-25 votes in.
Nice! jack Employers should at the very least let employees leave to vote if they can't offer the day off.
Just don't tell your co-workers you're voting for Trump
And that’s how capitalism works. The owner can do what he wants. If he chooses to do it and can afford it.
Unfortunately Twitter employees are not the demographic that actively experiences voter suppression. The lower income/working class would benefit the most from an Election day off. Hopefully Twitter influences other employers but it'll likely just be other tech companies.
Awesome!
This isn't news. It's a commercial.
have you ever noticed how lilly white these people are? get off the computer get some sun damned...look like vampires
Well I guess we know what he’s after
Twitter is making free speach a jailed holiday.
Moderating the lies of the head racist would be better tho🤷🏻♂️
Global or national jack ?
Obama is going to hate this
well i certainly need a full day off to fill out that mail-in ballot in 3 minutes....two weeks b4 election....
V2019N With one caveat. They have to vote Democrat.
Maybe you should take the rest of the year off. You know 🤔 never show up to work again.
Why isn’t a national holiday yet?
In Person not by Mail.
jacoker2 Somebody feels just a hair responsible for enabling America's downfall
When a tech company is trying so hard to act like an online government.. Regulate
For everyone else, call in sick Nov 3rd.
Leading by example!
Parler is much better, it just needs time for more people to use. When that happens, twitter will be done.
This guy could effectively make the biggest dent of all in Trump's reign of terror, but refuses to do so.
Trying to influence the election bigly
jack is starting to shine 🖖
At least tag the man behind the idea AndrewYang
Hahaha, precisely zero elections in SF/CA/USA will change because of this.
Maybe we should just vote on a Saturday? Let's draw up an Amendment.
As if elected politicians actually do something... they are all worthless
Funny they are also silencing their employees voices.
Election Day should be a national holiday.
jack is a better person by far than Mark Zuckerberg. charactermatters StopHateForProfit ZuckSucks
A real holiday or like when Elon Musk said Juneteenth was a newly recognized holiday for Tesla and SpaceX and then followed up with (paraphrasing) 'As long as you use one of your personal days...'
We should all just vote via Twitter and get paid by them for doing so
Because it is so hard to find time to vote if you don t have the entire day off.
👍Jacked
Yes! Twitter has a moral compass!! Take note Facebook
How many US citizens does Twitter employ? 20?
Narcissistic
All their employees are in California so it’s not like their vote really matters.
This is a great move for Republicans. Greater % of Republicans work and pay taxes. If they are off, they can get to the polls. Yahoo!!!!!!!!
Better make it a vacation week for the snowflakes to recover! 😂😂
Twitter is also supporting a racist
Cool, is he paying me or just his employees? 🙄
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As it should be...
In a true democracy every citizen above a certain age regardless of any conditions should be eligible and allowed to vote. People should be allowed to take time off and go excercise their civil right. USA doesn't do that. GOP is for restricting voting rights. Why?
Twitter has been very political lately. Good to have a cause to strive for, but when it becomes an all encompassing mainstream thing (BLM, Lbgt,...) it looks like they will censor out stuff on their platform that doesn't suit that narrative
And shadow banning any employee who requests 8 hours of paid holiday hours on their time card that day.
we don't need laws to show this kind of commitment... only cowards & chiselers need laws.
Extra bonus if you vote democrap
Why ? Republicans are closing polling stations in every state to make sure folks can't vote.
more corporations to follow soon. a floodgate.
It should be.
I'm starting to like this guy
how is this not standard for all companies? $TWTR
They should also just turn twitter off that day.
The H1-B thing was really a breaking point eh?
We need the day after super bowl a paid holiday as well!!!!
Good for Twitter employees, considering they were ALL going to vote anyways. Good stuff....deep thinker while 'micro-dosing'...smfh.
And a $500 bonus for voting Biden.
OOHHHH!, so?
Or have it on Saturday
Gotta respect when companies give staff the space to live in accordance with their personal values.
Should be a national holiday
Bravo! ALL Businesses should ensure employees are given ample opportunity to VOTE! ELECTION DAY SHOULD BE A NATIONAL ‘PAID’ HOLIDAY!
Twitter is censoring the POTUS
About time!
Where can I send my address so they can mail me my check!
Don't get too excited; it was close to that already in California by law.
No other holidays more value than election day since its outcome affect your life more than any holidays. I support Twitter on this. If the country cares they should make it a holiday to focus on what matters to people voice, their votes.
Twitter is making every other day a paid holiday. Work from home is the new company moto. Dorsey's companies are going to shit imo. no thanks.
Even to conservatives? Or does jack even allow conservatives at his gulags?
WholeMarsBlog Great. So no need to mail them in then.
Makes sense since they paid off the politicians
Dorsey is a traitor to America, to the constitution. How dare he censor content on this platform. This is America not China. He insults users of this platform by assuming they are not able to filter information & decide who & who not to follow, to decided what is true or false.
Joe losing his brain ...for all to see Democrats DefundThePolice foxnews BLM RNC DNC CNN FoxNews DefundPolice JoeBiden Trump2020 MSNBC JoeBiden2020
Twitter sucks and panders to lgbt and blm ers. I’m moving to Parler !
so like the rest of the world ... finally being normal
Good. Maybe it'll become a federal holiday.
The only people guaranteed a paid Federal holiday off is Federal workers. It's a waste of time.
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