Microsoft giving employees more flexibility to work from home

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Microsoft is giving its employees new flexibility in where they work and when.

The guidance, which was released in a blog and internal employee memo, comes after the Covid-19 outbreak proved to Microsoft and other companies that employees can work effectively from their homes.

Other tech companies, including Amazon and Facebook are exploring similar remote work policies following the pandemic lockdowns of earlier this year, which left millions of workers doing their jobs from home and communicating via Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Slack and other conferencing apps.

The situation resulted in a tectonic cultural shift at large companies, where managers have historically wanted their teams gathered in the same offices for control, communication and maximum efficiency.

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2020/10/09/microsoft-work-from-home.html

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1. These companies are so far behind the curve on this, they're about hit from behind by it

I work for tech company, and the whole organization, ~4000 workers, has been entirely remote since mid-march. I fail to see what's Amazon & Facebook so long to get w/ the program here, times being what they are!