Canada's Shopify CEO says era of 'office centricity is over; most staff to permanently work from home

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Canadian e-commerce firm Shopify Inc would keep its offices closed till 2021 and allow most employees to work remotely on a permanent basis after ...

REUTERS: The CEO of Canadian e-commerce firm Shopify Inc declared on Thursday the end of"office centricity" and decided to keep company offices closed till 2021, allowing most employees to work remotely on a permanent basis after that.

Ottawa-based Shopify, which briefly became Canada's most valuable company earlier this month, had more than 5,000 employees and contractors worldwide as of December."As of today, Shopify is a digital by default,” Tobi Lutke, who is also the founder of Shopify, said in a tweet."We will keep our offices closed until 2021 so that we can rework them for this new reality.

Shopify becomes the first major Canadian company to allow staff to work from home permanently, even as many large manufacturing companies, including Bombardier, gradually bring back some of their workers following reopening plans announced by Canadian provinces.U.S. tech firms Square Inc and Twitter Inc also recently allowed employees to continue working from home permanently.

Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google are allowing most of their employees to work remotely until the end of this year.

 

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