Ability to Return to Offices Will ‘Ebb and Flow’: Microsoft

COVID-19's “evolving” delta variant “is compelling many of us to adjust plans” for reopening workspaces, blogged Microsoft's Jared Spataro, corporate vice president-modern work, on the company's decision to indefinitely delay returning employees to their physical offices. “Our ability to come together will ebb and flow,” said Spataro Thursday. Microsoft had planned on Oct. 4 as “the first possible date” to fully reopen its Redmond, Washington, headquarters, he said. “Given the uncertainty of COVID-19, we’ve decided against attempting to forecast a new date for a full reopening of our U.S. work sites in favor of opening U.S. work sites as soon as we’re able to do so safely.”