San Francisco — Twitter is “strongly encouraging” its almost 5,000 global employees to work from home due to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus, the company said on Monday.

The social media company made the suggestion as part of a blog update one day after it suspended all non-critical travel for workers, including pulling out of the South by Southwest conference scheduled for later in March in Austin, Texas...

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