Microsoft's post-pandemic plans have been revealed. After sending most of its employees home in 2020 to help reduce the spread of coronavirus, Microsoft has decided how it will operate with some employees on-site while others continue to contribute remotely.
Microsoft's Post-Pandemic Plans for Employees
The new plan is part of Microsoft's hybrid approach to work after it started to welcome some employees back to its headquarters in the United States in March.
The company recently shared some of the practices it has put in place for its new hybrid plan, according to CNBC.
Government and companies have been eager for advice on how to approach returning to the office because missteps could cause issues.
Simply ditching the tools that workers used at the height of the coronavirus pandemic might lead to higher costs than necessary, and employees who do not feel supported in the new way of work might want to take other jobs.
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Because of this, Microsoft is providing guidance, and in doing so, it is emphasizing how its products can be critical even after the worst of the pandemic is over.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote in a LinkedIn post that the hybrid work represents the biggest shifts to how they work in the current generation, and it will need a new operating model, spanning people, places, and processes.
Nadella also described some of the changes that the company has instituted. The company also published a guide to hybrid work that touches on Microsoft's own adjustments.
The information is not just a way to show how Microsoft's own software is coming in handy.
Jared Spataro, a corporate vice president working on Microsoft 365, said in a blog post on May 21 that during the meetings he and his teammates hold almost every day with executives and partners, they are often asked what the company is doing.
Microsoft's Accommodations
First is how employees ask to make time for breaks. Microsoft conducted their own research and it showed that attending back-to-back video calls can be very stressful.
The company is encouraging its teams to enable recently added features in the Outlook email and calendar application that is included in Microsoft 365 productivity software subscriptions, that can automatically add a break before or after each meeting for a set period of time.
Another accommodation is making bosses consider the well-being of the employees. Nadella wrote that managers now need to think about the wellness of the people that they work with as a first-class priority, and the do everything they can to think about productivity in a broad sense instead of making it a short-term output.
Furthermore, updating conference rooms will be done. Big meeting rooms in the company's offices will be outfitted with Teams Rooms, which include devices that gather high-quality audio and video for people who are not on-site.
The company will install equipment to deliver better video calls in smaller rooms.
Microsoft also believes that managing the PCs, tablets, and phones of the employees using a cloud service provides more flexibility than running the management software in on-premises data centers, and so it is making that transition.
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Written by Sophie Webster
