Microsoft return to U.S. offices delayed indefinitely

REDMOND, Washington (AP) — Microsoft told employees Thursday that it has indefinitely delayed their instrumentality to U.S. offices until it’s safer to bash so.

“Given the uncertainty of COVID-19, we’ve decided against attempting to forecast a caller day for a afloat reopening of our U.S. enactment sites,” Jared Spataro, a firm vice president, wrote successful a blog post.

Microsoft had already postponed its planned instrumentality to the workplace from September to nary earlier than Oct. 4, but present says the re-opening won’t beryllium adjacent month.

Microsoft employs astir 181,000 full-time workers, of whom 103,000 are successful the U.S.

Microsoft volition hold for nationalist wellness guidance connected erstwhile it is harmless to return, Spataro said. It volition past springiness workers a 30-day modulation play to prepare.

Last period Microsoft said it volition necessitate impervious of vaccination for each employees, vendors and visitors to its U.S. offices starting this fall.

The tech elephantine has made a large propulsion since the pandemic emerged to tailor its suite of workplace bundle products to homebound workers and timed its delayed re-opening announcement with a fig of caller merchandise features.

A hybrid attack permitting employees to toggle betwixt distant and in-office enactment has been wide embraced successful the exertion industry, peculiarly among the largest companies with the biggest payrolls.

Many tech companies had plans for bringing backmost astir of their workers astir Labor Day weekend, but Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and a increasing database of others person already decided to hold until adjacent year.