Microsoft plans to implement a stricter mandate for return to Office next year, said sources Business Insider.
Microsoft has carried out a flexible working agreement since the pandemic, so that a long -distance work enables up to half of the time. According to the BI report, Microsoft is considering increasing the requirement for personal work for employees based at the headquarters of Redmond, Washington, to at least three days a week from January.
Microsoft still works with the details of the plan and intends to announce it in September, according to the sources. A Microsoft spokesman said BI that the company is considering revising its flexible work plan, but had not yet made any changes.
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A mandate of return to Office could affect tens of thousands of Microsoft employees. By June 30th, Microsoft employed 228,000 workers with 125,000 in the United States
When Microsoft implements a stricter guideline to return to Office, a number of other companies that recently tightened the boundaries of remote work-or overall removed.
In 2025, both AT&T and Sweetgreen revised their stops in long -distance work, whereby AT&T asked the US employees to work out of the office every five days while Sweetgreen was prescribed for four days. So far, both companies have called for employees to work personally three days a week.
In the meantime, Amazon announced a comprehensive mandate of return to the office in September, in which the employees have to work out of the office five days a week instead of sticking to a hybrid schedule. Although the step with the employees drove – and 500 employees inspired to sign a letter in protest – Amazon remained with the move.
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According to a study that was carried out by Bambus-HR last year, the return to Office was often carried out in the disguise of layoffs that were able to take a workforce without official work cuts. About a quarter of the C-Suite managers surveyed wanted to inspire “voluntary sales” with stricter return-off-offices guidelines.
Mass layoffs despite outstanding income
Microsoft recently carried out mass layoffs and eliminated 9,000 roles or almost 4% of its workforce in July. Two months earlier, in May, Microsoft released over 6,000 employees or 3% of his workforce.
At the same time, Microsoft has reported star winnings that are larger than the expectations of the analysts. Last month, Microsoft announced that sales for the quarter ending on June 30 compared to the previous year rose by 18% and reached $ 76.4 billion, while the net result was $ 27.2 billion, which was 24%.
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Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, told the order cuts in a memo to employees who were published on Microsoft's Corporate Blog last month. Nadella recognized the discrepancy between Microsoft's “flourishing” financial data and his decision to still take employees.
“This is the riddle of success in an industry that does not have a franchise value,” wrote Nadella, without further explaining.
The Microsoft shares is over 24% compared to the time of the year at the time of writing.
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Microsoft plans to implement a stricter mandate for return to Office next year, said sources Business Insider.
Microsoft has carried out a flexible working agreement since the pandemic, so that a long -distance work enables up to half of the time. According to the BI report, Microsoft is considering increasing the requirement for personal work for employees based at the headquarters of Redmond, Washington, to at least three days a week from January.
Microsoft still works with the details of the plan and intends to announce it in September, according to the sources. A Microsoft spokesman said BI that the company is considering revising its flexible work plan, but had not yet made any changes.
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