{"id":11928,"date":"2021-09-10T11:26:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T15:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=11928"},"modified":"2021-09-13T11:34:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T15:34:24","slug":"microsoft-to-reopen-us-offices-site-by-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/microsoft-to-reopen-us-offices-site-by-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to Reopen US Offices Site by Site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft revealed last Thursday that it will no longer set a specific date for the reopening of all of its U.S. offices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, Microsoft has stated it will reopen each site based on whether it meets a set of corporate standards and local health guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company had previously announced it would open its headquarters in Redmond and its other U.S. offices on October 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft said Thursday  that every U.S. site will return to work once all local government guidelines are met and the site has reached their &#8220;Stage 6&#8221; set of criteria as detailed last March. Stage 6 requires that &#8220;COVID-19 is no longer a significant burden on the local community and presents itself more like an endemic virus such as the seasonal flu.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A number of other major technology companies are also postponing a return to office, while others like Facebook are calling for mandatory vaccinations because of the rising number of cases in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information, you may view the original story from Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft revealed last Thursday that it will no longer set a specific date for the reopening of all of its U.S. offices. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-11928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-work","tag-microsoft"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11952,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11928\/revisions\/11952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}