Microsoft gets the W.

As a cloud company, this shows 100% that they believe in their products enough to make this happen. https://t.co/8MXmqScriL

— ? Data Caps ? (@Delibird444) October 9, 2020

The pandemic has made people reconsider many things and employers must provide flexibility or risk losing talent. Microsoft is doing the right thing especially considering most of what they do empowers such flexibility for many employees https://t.co/2NKtaoWyCC

— Carolina Milanesi (@caro_milanesi) October 9, 2020

It's becoming a flood. Microsoft will now allow employees to work from home for less than 50% of their time without any special dispensation.

Permanent remote work will apply the now industry standard pay based on location baselined on Silicon Valley.https://t.co/Kms9x1TErZ

— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) October 9, 2020

Curious to see where techies will live when they can live anywhere https://t.co/34LeeWMisz

— Rani Molla (@ranimolla) October 9, 2020

Wow. #Microsoft goes #WFH permanently. Because of the fight for tech talent, you'd have to think all the top tech companies will have to follow suit. https://t.co/3pA2zvQIjf

— Kevin Kruse (@Kruse) October 9, 2020

scoop: Microsoft is letting employees work from home permanently. Details here: https://t.co/An85PIo2fH pic.twitter.com/U90cthvYud

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) October 9, 2020

This is huge, too: " 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." https://t.co/RuapUA1ZC0

— Tommy Williams (@twwilliams) October 9, 2020

"employees can also request part-time work hours through their managers"

This is actually the most interesting part. https://t.co/sttZ46nZYp

— Jeff Johnson (@lapcatsoftware) October 9, 2020

plenty of caveats, but super important step for a company of that size https://t.co/JVC31ii5II pic.twitter.com/K4AXbxdFSe

— Alex B ? (@somospostpc) October 9, 2020

Another one https://t.co/vMlDbzeqJk

— Ryan Hoover (@rrhoover) October 9, 2020

Yeah so where were the thought leaders writing how the work from home setup is not viable long-run again? https://t.co/DyzG4EsH14

— Achim (@thejoewah) October 9, 2020

Shots fired in the tech world! https://t.co/PD0yWMWjq1

— Randy Gage (@Randy_Gage) October 9, 2020

Paul Thurrott's Short Takes: October 9https://t.co/z7F8KwLNyA pic.twitter.com/7At5Wnd2v1

— Paul Thurrott (@thurrott) October 9, 2020

"Microsoft employees were told this week that they will be able to work remotely less than 50% of the work week once it’s safe to return to offices."https://t.co/oxX082iNqf

— Dror Poleg (@drorpoleg) October 9, 2020

Nice - Microsoft to allow employees to play XBox for half the time: https://t.co/udZ4Ere431

— . (@cloud_opinion) October 9, 2020

The hybrid work era is here! This is great for parents with little ones. Love it! What will this mean for the office market? ?https://t.co/OdeOlGGPhh#CRE #CommercialRealEstate #RealEstate

— Andrew Bermudez (@andrewbermudez) October 9, 2020

Microsoft will let employees work from home half the time https://t.co/SalRssu6fF

— CNBC Tech (@CNBCtech) October 9, 2020

there it is https://t.co/DwIKagh2Zg

— Jordan Novet (@jordannovet) October 9, 2020