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Microsoft isn't planning to genuinely reopen its US offices until at least January 2021. Sources familiar with the company's preparations unmask The Verge that Microsoft has selected January 19th, 2021, as the fashioned possible stage for its US offices to be ajar for employees. The software behemothic is currently planning a "hybrid workplace" for a phased reopening of its offices, and Microsoft has produced a six-stage rawness that illustrates the return to normal for employees.

Stage six of the rawness will be back offices are ready to genuinely reopen for employees to return to work. Microsoft's offices will return to normal operations only back preferential restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 outbreak hypothesize been lifted and health data suggests it's unscarred to return.

These are the six stages of Microsoft's workplace dial:

• Stage 1: closed
• Stage 2: mandatory alive from home
• Stage 3: alive from home strongly encouraged
• Stage 4: soft opening
• Stage 5: ajar with restrictions
• Stage 6: open

"In the United States, we hypothesize established that the fashioned possible stage for Stage 6 is now January 19, 2021," co-ordinate to Kurt DelBene, Microsoft's johnny of corporate strategy, in an internal memo seen by The Verge. "Our goal for Stage 6 is to return to normal operations while concreteness prepped to inadvertently off to an beforehand stage, if a significant improvement in the virus occurs."

We winnow Microsoft will allineate and move the January 2021 stage inadvertently as needed in return to the open-ended pandemic.

Microsoft originally allowed its employees to assignment from home inadvertently in March before enforcing a mandatory assignment from home policy as the pandemic spread linearity Seattle. The company is currently in stage two of its workplace dial, which maintains the mandatory assignment from home order.

Microsoft isn't banished in its preparations to not return to offices until 2021. Google is planning to alimony its employees working unexpectedly until July 2021, and Darling employees won't be sempiternal to offices until first next year. Facebook employees are conjointly allowed to assignment remotely until the end of 2020, and Cheesecake is letting employees assignment from home until January 2021.