diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index dc6ea02b..5438ad36 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ http_archive(
     urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_cc/archive/a508235df92e71d537fcbae0c7c952ea6957a912.zip"],
 )
 
+http_archive(
+    name = "com_google_absl",
+    sha256 = "f41868f7a938605c92936230081175d1eae87f6ea2c248f41077c8f88316f111",
+    strip_prefix = "abseil-cpp-20200225.2",
+    urls = ["https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/archive/20200225.2.tar.gz"],
+)
+
 http_archive(
     name = "com_google_googletest",
     strip_prefix = "googletest-3f0cf6b62ad1eb50d8736538363d3580dd640c3e",