Microsoft delays the “full” reopening of its Redmond campus to September 7

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Published onApril 2, 2021

published onApril 2, 2021

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If Microsoft haspartially re-opened its Redmond campus this weekto give more flexibility to its employees in the Puget Sound area, the company has now delayed its plan to fully reopen its headquarters on July 6. In a note sent to employees yesterday (viaZDNet), Microsoft’s head of Corporate Strategy Kurt DelBene said that the company has now chosen September 7 as the new reopening date for its Redmond campus.

The two months delay will give “flexibility for employees to make summer plans,” the exec said in the internal note. Last week, a Microsoft spokesperson told ZDNet that the company would “continue to monitor the situation” after choosing July 6 as the earliest date for a “full opening” of its Redmond campus.

The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic is far from being over, and Microsoft previously unveiled a Hybrid Workplace Dial detailing six stages of the COVID-19 hybrid workplace. The company is currently at stage 4, a “soft open” stage where employees are still encouraged to work remotely, with stage 6 being the “full opening.”

Microsoft currently employs over 57,000 people in the Puget Sound area, and the company is still in the middle of amassive re-architecturing effort of its Redmond campusthat will take an estimated 5 to 7 years to complete. Even though the company is now experimenting with a hybrid workplace model, the construction project will lead to the creation of 2.5 million square feet of new office space to welcome more employees at the company’s headquarters when the pandemic is over.

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