They were focused on what problem do we need to solve, who needed to be there. They weren’t worried about who could be where at different point in time. “And they weren’t worried about finding a conference room.
“We saw teams coming together in a different way - really focused on the outcomes,” she said. Putur said REI saw benefits in working remotely that the company wanted to retain. REI is identifying a handful of satellite locations around the Puget Sound area, which it hopes will serve as hubs for its employees to congregate.
“We decided to do that because that kind of gave us a clean slate, so we could just look at all the opportunities ahead of us,” Christine Putur, executive vice president of the company’s technology and operations, said in an interview. The retailer REI sold its new headquarters in Bellevue, Wash., last year, before it even had a chance to move in. But even then, office life for Microsoft’s 160,000 employees is not likely to look like what it did before the pandemic. Microsoft plans to open its office without restrictions only once the virus acts “more like an endemic virus such as the seasonal flu,” Kurt DelBene, an executive vice president, wrote on the company blog. Microsoft will also continue to require employees to wear masks and maintain social distancing. In this stage of reopening, which Microsoft described as Step 4 in a six-step “dial,” the Redmond campus will give some 57,000 nonessential employees the choice to work from the office, home or a combination of both. The tech giant announced Monday that it would begin allowing more workers back into its headquarters in Redmond, Wash., starting on next Monday, while also acknowledging that work life may never be the same.
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Microsoft has joined other corporate giants in assessing the best way to bring workers back to the office, a year after the pandemic sent home employees, who had to learn how to be productive on video conference calls while juggling interruptions from families, pets and the doorbell.
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