14 DAY TRIAL // It’s pretty clear by now that the global health crisis won’t come to an end too soon, and like most of the companies, tech giants in the United States are reconsidering their work from home plans for all employees.
Microsoft is one of them, as the software firm previously planned to allow all employees to return to their offices in January next year.
Unfortunately, with the whole thing getting worse not only in the United States but also elsewhere, Microsofties returning to their offices won’t be possible in January, so the Redmond-based company is now switching to another target date for the whole thing.
According to a recent report, Microsoft has informed employees they’re allowed to work from home until July 2021, of course, if everything returns to normal until then. And hopefully, it will, as Microsoft isn’t the only company that keeps employees at home these days.
The pandemic effect on Microsoft
Needless to say, those who absolutely need to go to the office will be allowed to do so, in many cases part time, though Microsoft still recommends everyone to do as much as possible from the comfort of their own homes.
The Redmond-based software company is one of the tech giants that moved to digital events due to the health issue, with key events, including the Build developer conference, moved to the WWW instead of a physical venue.
On the other hand, Microsoft recorded a massive increase in terms of adoption for Microsoft Teams, the company’s cloud-based productivity and collaborative solution that has been widely purchased by firms from all over the world after they switched to working from home. Microsoft itself admitted that it recorded a growth that it typically gets in two years in just two months, all because millions of employees started working from home and needed an advanced software product to do this efficiently.