50 mile radius

  1. Microsoft Sets 3-Day In-Office Baseline for Puget Sound Hybrid Work

    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...
  2. Microsoft enforces three-day in-office baseline and tighter internal speech controls

    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...