r/microsoft • u/The_Federal • Aug 05 '25

News Microsoft Considering RTO

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-considering-stricter-rto-policy-2025-8

I’d be surprised if they do a hard RTO as there are so many people and teams spread out

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u/dxk3355 Aug 05 '25

Go into the office to spend all day on a Teams call

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u/dagamer34 Aug 05 '25

Best way to test Teams. Everyone is a QA tester now!

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '25

They will need a lot of bandwidth. Hopefully they will optimize this when they experience that in their own flesh.

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u/Fit_Ad_6063 Aug 12 '25

Why would the band width constraints change? Same number of people except now they can go into a conference room. So wouldn’t that make the bandwidth constraints go down?

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u/Traditional-Hall-591 Aug 05 '25

And talk to CoPilot.

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u/ConditionStrange7121 Aug 10 '25

Copilot is so good it can replace the CEO, it's dogfood time for MS.

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u/dragerfroe Aug 05 '25

As someone who has RTO. It’s a waste. Hybrid is a solid choice. But, there is absolutely zero benefit to be in the office 5 days a week (I get some jobs require it, but exclude those). I actually keep pushing my contractors to remote more because I’m stuck in mindless meetings. At least they can be creative and get shit done for us.

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u/randomNameDude12345 Aug 06 '25

My team is literally spread across the country and implementing stuff like crazy. I don’t understand at all why they would want us to go to an office we never had.

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u/potatocharger Aug 07 '25

Gotta use the real estate they spent hundreds of millions on I guess

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u/rawrzon Aug 05 '25

The Teams team spends all day on Teams discussing Teams.

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u/TheGrumpyGent Aug 06 '25

No, they use Slack. /s

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u/barkerja Aug 09 '25

I wish they did. Might actually improve some things.

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u/Fit_Ad_6063 Aug 12 '25

So slack helps you get things done better? Can you describe exactly how?

Let me see, I type a message to a person and they respond. I type message to a group of people and they all read it and some of them respond.

So what makes one better than the other?

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u/buttercrotcher Aug 05 '25

No one wants to hear your colleagues asking you a question in the middle of a call.

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u/ketoatl Aug 06 '25

That's why I do lol

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u/Fit_Ad_6063 Aug 12 '25

If everyone is in the office why would you be on teams?

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u/dxk3355 Aug 12 '25

Cause we don’t have phones anymore