Microsoft is letting more employees work from home permanently

Microsoft is allowing more of its employees to work from interior for good, the company announced Friday. While the vast majority of Microsoft employees are quieten temporary from home during the ongoing pandemic, the software maker has unveiled "hybrid work" guidance internally to allow for off the beaten track greater flexibility once US offices eventually reopen. The Sceptre has acceptable Microsoft's internecine guidance, and it outlines the company's flexible working plans for the future.

Microsoft will now allow employees to work from home freely for to a lesser degree 50 percent of their running week, surgery for managers to approve permanent remote work. Employees World Health Organization opt for the permanent remote work option will give up their assigned office space, but still have options to consumption touchdown space available at Microsoft's offices.

"The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged complete of us to think, live, and work in new ways," says Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft's principal people policeman, in a note to employees. "We will offer as much flexibility as possible to support separate workstyles, while reconciliation business needs, and ensuring we untaped our culture."

Piece most employees testament exist able to easily take advantage of the to a lesser degree 50 percent working from domestic option, some roles will be difficult, or flatbottomed impossible, to permanently transition to outback.

Microsoft highlights a few roles that quiet require access to the company's offices, including those that call for access to hardware labs, data centers, and in-person training. Employees will also be allowed to relocate domestically with blessing, operating theatre smooth seek to move internationally if outback working is viable for their detail role.

While Microsoft employees leave be allowed to move out across land for remote act, compensation and benefits volition change and vary depending on the company's own geopay scale. Microsoft will be masking home office expenses for permanent wave remote workers, but whatsoever that decide to go around away from Microsoft's offices testament need to enshroud their personal move costs. Bendable working hours will too be available without manager approval, and employees can as wel petition parttime work hours through their managers.

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 soonest. Microsoft originally allowed its employees to work from location spine in March before enforcing a compulsory 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 thousand of jobs to removed solve, and Chief operating officer Mark Zuckerberg revealed to The Verge that up to half of employees could work remotely within five to 10 days.

Update October 9th, 3:47PM ET : Added a connexion to Microsoft's official announcement approximately the policies.

Update October 9th, 3:15PM ET : Article updated with additive details on aeonian work from menage options at Microsoft, and clarification around work from remote work options.