Microsoft Corp. The professional-networking site of LinkedIn will make it easier for job seekers to find remote and hybrid roles, adapting to the realities of the pandemic, which has forced its parent company to delay its return-to-office plans.
The new options will allow users to filter roles or search workplaces in traditional offices, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. And LinkedIn plans to make it easier to find out about companies’ vaccination requirements.
Microsoft also said it would indefinitely postpone plans to fully open its headquarters until October 4.
“Given the uncertainty of COVID-19, we have decided to predict a new date to fully reopen our US workplaces in favor of opening US workplaces as soon as the public is able to do so safely. decided against the attempt. health guidance,” according to the blog post. “From there, we’ll communicate a 30-day transition period that gives employees time to prepare, while looking at data and making choices that leave us agile and flexible. allow to remain. To protect the health, safety and welfare of the employees.”
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted employees to rethink how, where and why they want to work — a change LinkedIn is calling the “great reshuffle.” That rose 8.5 times to 16% of the total in August since the start of the pandemic.
But in-person work isn’t going away, the company said. Microsoft’s own rank-and-file workforce is planning to return to the office more often than managers expect, according to an internal survey. Eight percent of non-managerial employees said they plan to be in the office every day, compared to only 1% of the manager’s expectation.
The survey found that nearly half of Microsoft employees plan to come to the office three to four times a week. This is much higher than the 28% that managers expected. Still, the results showed that bosses generally plan to log more time in person than their employees.
In one twist, both employees who preferred to stay home and employees who wanted to go back to the office gave the same reason: They thought it was easier to focus on work.
This story has been published without modification in text from a wire agency feed. Only the title has been changed.
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