微软公司将让员工有一半的时间在家工作_风闻

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图为 微软公司的Logo

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。”

While most employees will be able to easily take advantage of the less than 50 percent working from home option, some roles will be difficult, or even impossible, to permanently transition to remote.

尽管大部分的员工将可以轻松地使用少于50%（工作周）时间在家工作选项，但是一些角色很难或者甚至不可能永久地过渡到远程办公。

 

图为微软公司的硬件实验室

Microsoft highlights a few roles that still require access to the company’s offices, including those that require access to hardware labs, data centers, and in-person training. Employees will also be allowed to relocate domestically with approval, or even seek to move internationally if remote working is viable for their particular role.

微软重点介绍了一些仍然需要访问该公司的办公室的角色，包括那些需要访问硬件实验室、数据中心和现场培训的角色。员工还可以在获得批准的情况下允许在美国国内重新安置住所，甚至寻求迁移到国际上如果远程办公对他们的特定的角色切实可行。

While Microsoft employees will be allowed to move across country for remote work, compensation and benefits will change and vary depending on the company’s own geopay scale. Microsoft will be covering home office expenses for permanent remote workers, but any that decide to move away from Microsoft’s offices will need to cover their own relocation costs. Flexible working hours will also be available without manager approval, and employees can also request part-time work hours through their managers.

尽管微软员工被允许跨国进行远程工作，但是薪酬和福利将会被改变，而改变将取决于公司所处的地理范围。微软将为长期的远程工作人员支付家庭办公室开支，但是任何决定离开微软办公室的人都需要负担他们自己的搬迁费用。不需要经理批准，灵活的工作时间也可供支配，而且员工也可以通过经理要求兼职工作时间。 

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。

Microsoft isn’t alone in allowing employees to permanently work remotely. Facebook is shifting tens of thousand of jobs to remote work, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed to The Verge that up to half of employees could work remotely within five to 10 years.

微软并不是唯一一个允许员工永久地远程工作的公司。脸书正在将数万个工作岗位转移到远程工作上，而首席执行官马克·扎克伯格向Verge透露，在5至10年内多达一半的员工可以进行远程工作。