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No Plans for Microsoft to Follow Amazon’s RTO Policy
In a recent internal meeting, Scott Guthrie, EVP of Microsoft’s Cloud + AI group, told Microsoft employees that the company has no intention of ending its flexible work policy—unless productivity levels start to decline.
While Seattle-area competitors, like Amazon, have recently mandated that corporate staffers must work out of the office five days a week, Microsoft is taking a different route for now. The company is standing by its flexible, hybrid work model, allowing employees to work remotely.
Earlier this year, Microsoft pivoted from its original plans to abandon all of the company’s space in downtown Bellevue. The technology giant opted to keep some space for its LinkedIn subsidiary in the Lincoln Square North Tower at 10401 NE Eighth Street.
Microsoft has been unloading office space on the Eastside as the company opens new buildings at its Redmond headquarters, part of a $5 billion campus refresh that will replace 12 older office buildings with approximately three million square feet of office space within 17 new buildings.
