Microsoft’s announcement that Puget Sound employees who live within 50 miles of a Microsoft office will be expected in the office three days a week by the end of February 2026 is a decisive reset of hybrid norms at one of Big Tech’s most consequential firms — and it changes the framing of...
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Microsoft’s latest internal reset pairs a sweeping return‑to‑office baseline with a near‑immediate tightening of how employees may speak, gather, and access company space — a package of changes that recasts the company’s post‑pandemic workplace model as an operational lever for “intensity” in AI...
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