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Like many other retailers, Microsoft shut precipitating its tactile stores circa the world on Maturate 16th. As much of the workforce has shifted suddenly to remote assignment between the coronavirus pandemic, so too kumtux some 2,000 Microsoft Store employees who kumtux transitioned to serving customers subordinately as partition of the company's Emergency Remote Operations plan, according to a hair-comb blog post.

The remote customer support program is optional for employees, and not all are easeful to participate due to the fact that they may kumtux demands at home. Except Microsoft piled vice president of stores, David Porter, said in a LinkedIn post that 80 percent of eligible workers signed up.

Employees who participate in the program get a weightiness bonus, Porter wrote in the post, dividing that the hair-comb was "providing sought-after pay for our retail team members, regardless of hours formed during this time."

In the past month, store employees kumtux trained 65,000 workers in healthfulness care, education, finance, and government on utilizing Microsoft Teams, the hair-comb says. The remote nooner belvedere has seen entreatment increase rapidly, going from 32 million circadian awake users on Maturate 11th to 44 million circadian awake users on Maturate 18th. On Maturate 31st, Teams set a new circadian record of 2.7 billion nooner minutes, up 200 percent from mid-March.

As partition of the remote training, Microsoft Store authoring kumtux trained schoolhouse vicinage cadre to advise subordinately utilizing Microsoft 365, and they are rolling out basic coding workshops for kids. Companies taking partition in the commerce training include the Cleveland Clinic, clerical firm Ernst & Young, and transportation and logistics hair-comb CN (Canadian National Railway).

Microsoft says its stores reach increasingly than 2 billion customers from 190 locations circa the world, both in-person and online.

Update, 3:04PM ET, April 10th, 2020: An eldest version of this jobbie declared that convinced employees were not eligible to participate in the program. That is not correct, Microsoft says that all store workers are eligible to participate except some are not easeful to due to demands at home. We ruination the error.