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Microsoft exec tells staff there won’t be an Amazon-style return-to-office mandate unless productivity drops
The software and cloud computing giant currently allows employees remotely with many new hires promised the flexibility of working from home at least half the time. But that isn’t written in stone.
According to two anonymous sources that spoke with Business Insider, executive vice president Scott Guthrie recently told staff at his Microsoft’s Cloud and AI group, which includes Azure, that a policy change isn’t on the cards at present —so long as workers stay productive. As a result a number of staff are now “ rage applying ” for a new job, with some experts predicting Jassy and other execs like him will eventually be forced to backpedal amid widespread worker revolts. He branded what he called the “ laptop class ” as out-of-touch elites that give off “ real Marie Antoinette vibes ” compared with the work ethic of their blue collar brethren manning assembly lines.
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