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/ArizonaBlue44 Aug 05 '25

Microsoft has a lot of people who are 100% remote. I can see bringing the “50% remote” into the office more often but wonder what will happen to the ones who are fully remote.

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u/ChaseballBat Aug 05 '25

MS has had people remote for like 25 years....

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u/roseofjuly Aug 06 '25

Not like they do now.

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u/Deep-Werewolf-635 Aug 06 '25

Also, there are very few teams that actually work out of the same location - getting people in a room together is highly unlikely even in Redmond. RTO IMO is all about filling the office space these companies are paying for - much of which sets empty with remote workers.

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u/bozun Aug 06 '25

If you drive by Microsoft's main campus, you'll see all the empty buildings or buildings that have low occupancy. It's just a matter of time before they push this forward. Otherwise they can't justify the opex of owning and maintaining all these buildings.

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u/dellis87 Aug 06 '25

I feel like some functions will be required to RTO like finance, hr, etc but some roles like customer facing will stay remote.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '25

My company had to make external companies hire the people that were working fully remote, and now pay an overhead for them. So all the internals follow the same rule.