Microsoft to allow more workers back into its headquarters in Redmond

Microsoft announced on Monday that it would begin allowing more workers back into its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, starting on March 29.

In this stage of reopening, which Microsoft described as Step 4 in a six-step “dial”, the Redmond campus will give non-essential on-site employees the choice to work from the office, home or a combination of both.

Microsoft will also continue to require employees to wear masks and maintain social distancing.

Microsoft plans to open its office without restrictions only once the virus acts “more like an endemic virus such as the seasonal flu,” wrote Kurt DelBene, an executive vice-president at the tech giant.