Microsoft Allows 150 Thousand Employees to Work From Home

Microsoft Allows 150 Thousand Employees to Work From Home

According to various sources on October 10, including The Verge, Independent and Business Insider, Microsoft employees won’t be required to come back to the office, even when stay-at-home measures for the coronavirus pandemic are lifted.

While the vast majority of Microsoft employees are still working from home during the ongoing pandemic, the software maker has unveiled “hybrid workplace” guidance internally to allow for far greater flexibility once US offices eventually reopen.

According to an internal Microsoft memo obtained by The Verge, Microsoft employees will be allowed to work from home for less than half of their workweek. Pending manager approval, some employees will be allowed to work from home full time.

As the coronavirus pandemic sent millions of Americans indoors in March and working remotely became the norm for many companies, some tech giants have decided to make working remotely a permanent part of their workplace.

Goo0gler, Twitter and Square, for instance, will allow employees to work remotely in perpetuity, and Facebook is predicting that up to 50% of its staff going forward will work remote. They are among dozens of companies that have chosen to permanently alter the way their workplace uses office space — a choice that over half of American workers support.

Microsoft’s move to more flexible working comes months after the company notified employees that its US offices wouldn’t reopen until January 2021 at the earliest. Microsoft originally allowed its employees to work from home back in March before enforcing a mandatory work from home policy as the pandemic spread across Seattle and further into the US.

Microsoft isn’t alone in allowing employees to permanently work remotely. Facebook is shifting tens of thousands of jobs to remote work, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed to The Verge that up to half of employees could work remotely within five to 10 years.

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