(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it would no longer set an express date for the reopening of all its U. S. offices and would instead reopen the site based on whether or not it met a set of corporate criteria and local fitness guidelines.
“Given the uncertainty of COVID-19, we do not have to attempt to schedule a new date for a full reopening of our U. S. shipyards. USA In favor of opening shipyards in the U. S. As soon as we can do it safely, based on public fitness tips,” Microsoft https://bit. ly/2X34nlh said in a blog post.
Microsoft had previously announced that it would open its headquarters in Redmond like other offices in the United States on October 4.
Microsoft said Thursday that each and every U. S. site is not a U. S. site. USA They will return to operation when all local government rules are met and when the site reaches “level 6″ of a set of criteria detailed through the company in March. Reaching the sixth level requires that. ” COVID-19 is no longer a significant burden on local network paints and presents itself more as an endemic virus like seasonal influenza,” Microsoft said in an earlier blog post.
Some big tech corporations are delaying their return to power, while others, such as Facebook Inc, are making vaccinations mandatory due to the rise in COVID-19 cases in the country.
The software giant said it would also grant a 30-day transitional era that would give workers time to prepare before returning to the office.
(Reporting through Tiyashi Datta in Bengaluru and Stephen Nellis in San Francisco, edited through Arun Koyyur and Matthew Lewis)