Microsoft to take site-by-site approach to U.S. office reopening
- Microsoft had earlier said it would open its Redmond headquarters as well as other U.S. offices on Oct. 4.
"Given the uncertainty of COVID-19, we've decided against attempting to forecast a new date for a full reopening of our U.S. work sites in favor of opening U.S. work sites as soon as we're able to do so safely based on public health guidance," Microsoft said in a blog post.
Microsoft had earlier said it would open its Redmond headquarters as well as other U.S. offices on Oct. 4.
Microsoft on Thursday said each U.S. site will return to work when all local government guidelines are met and when the site has reached "Stage 6" of a set of criteria the company detailed in March. Hitting the sixth stage requires that "COVID-19 is no longer a significant burden on the local community and presents itself more like an endemic virus such as the seasonal flu," Microsoft said in an earlier blog post.
