Microsoft employees slept in data centers during pandemic lockdown, exec says
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Microsoft employees slept in the software companys data centers during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, an executive said on Wednesday. That was the case for a select few who worked at the locations containing the servers for online services like Microsoft Teams, as well as public-cloud infrastructure powering third-party customers applications. "I heard amazing stories about people actually sleeping in data centers," Kristen Roby Dimlow, corporate vice president for total rewards, performance and human resources business insights, said during a conversation with Morgan Stanley analysts Josh Baer and Mark Carlucci. "In certain countries there was huge lockdown, and so we would have our own employees choose to sleep in the data center because they were worried theyd get stuck at a roadblock, trying to go home." Employees were allowed to work from home if they felt anxious about coming to data centers, Walsh said.
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