【龙腾网】微软公司将让员工有一半的时间在家工作

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Microsoft is allowing more of its employees to work from home permanently, the company announced Friday. While the vast majority of Microsoft employees are still working from home during the ongoing pandemic, the software maker has unveiled “hybrid workplace” guidance internally to allow for far greater flexibility once US offices eventually reopen. The Verge has received Microsoft’s internal guidance, and it outlines the company’s flexible working plans for the future.

微软公司周五宣布，允许更多的他公司员工在家永久工作。在持续的大流行病期间，绝大多数微软员工仍然在家里工作，这个软件制造商在内部公布了“混合工作场所”指南，以便于一旦美国工作场所最终重新开放后提供更大的灵活性。Verge（译注:Verge是一家以科技新闻报道为主的美国媒体）已收到Microsoft的内部指南，该指南概述了该公司在未来的灵活工作计划。

Microsoft will now allow employees to work from home freely for less than 50 percent of their working week, or for managers to approve permanent remote work. Employees who opt for the permanent remote work option will give up their assigned office space, but still have options to use touchdown space available at Microsoft’s offices.

微软将允许员工每周在家自由工作的时间不超过50%，或者允许经理批准永久远程办公。选择永久远程办公选项的员工将会被放弃分配给他们的办公室空间，但是依然可以选择使用微软办公室散落的可用空间。

“The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged all of us to think, live, and work in new ways,” says Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft’s chief people officer, in a note to employees. “We will offer as much flexibility as possible to support individual workstyles, while balancing business needs, and ensuring we live our culture.”

“新冠病毒大流行已经促使我们需要以新的方法去思考、生活和工作。“微软首席人事官凯瑟琳·霍根再给员工的说明中说。“我们将提供尽可能多的灵活性来支持个人的工作风格，同时平衡业务需求，并确保我们生活在我们的文化中。”

图为微软公司的硬件实验室

Microsoft’s move to more flexible working comes months after the company notified employees that its US offices wouldn’t reopen until January 2021 at the earliest. Microsoft originally allowed its employees to work from home back in March before enforcing a mandatory work from home policy as the pandemic spread across Seattle and further into the US.

微软采取更灵活的工作方式是在数月前，该公司通知员工，其美国办公室最早要到2021年1月才能重新开放。微软最初在三月份允许它的员工在家工作，但随着疫情在西雅图蔓延，并进一步蔓延到美国，微软强制执行了在家工作的政策。

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Nullcodes
Umm, if you can work from Boise, ID .. you can work from Bangalore, IN.
That’s what this is accelerating to.

嗯，如果你可以在美国爱达荷州的博伊西市工作，那么你也可以在印度的班加罗尔市工作。
这种情况正在加速(进行中)。

edanco
I hear Bangalore, Indiana is beautiful!

我听过班加罗尔市，美国印第安纳州很美。

Purplesaltyqueso
It’s actually quite a modern city.

它实际上是一座现代化的城市。

I wonder how this will go?

我想知道接下来的情况会如何进行下去呢？

Kirielson
That’s actually not going to happen the way you think. Most of the experienced or speciality teams will have access to full remote post-pandemic.

实际上，这不会像你想的那样发生。大多数有经验或专业的团队将可以进入整个远程(工作)，在传染病流行后。

low_tech
I would not be so sure. When it comes to saving labor costs companies are ruthless. If MS or any large company can effectively reduce their office footprint AND hire employees in "cheaper" locales the savings will be too much to resist. Someone working in Seattle for example would certainly be paid more than some who relocates/lives in Mississippi for example. Now consider countries like India or the Philippines…

我不太确定。 当远程办公的情况发生从而导致节省了人工成本，而公司是冷酷无情的。
如果微软公司或任何大型公司可以有效地减少办公室占地面积，并在“廉价”地区雇用员工，那么节省下来的费用将是无法抗拒的。 例如，在美国西雅图市工作的人肯定会比重新搬到或者居住在美国密西西比州的人获得更高的报酬。
现在考虑印度或菲律宾等国家...

thebrownsurfer
I would like to also say if your job is a target to be outsourced to India well that means it’s been an "at-risk" position for a long time now. Which means you didn’t see the signs and take the time to make yourself valuable. Not 100% blaming the worker for this but the reality is in this cut-throat environment you’ve got to adapt to survive.

我还想说，如果你的工作是外包给印度的目标，那就意味着你的工作长期处于“危险”状态。这意味着你没有看到迹象，没有花时间让自己变得有价值。不是100%的责怪工人，但现实是，在这个残酷的环境中，你必须适应才能生存。