As was true for many companies, Microsoft continued to update its target return-to-work dates as the pandemic demographics continued to shift. Last fall, officials decided against setting a new public return-to-the-office target date. Capossela cited high local vaccination rates, coupled with lower levels of hospitalization and higher availability of testing as all playing a role in the reopening date determination. Outside of Washington state, Microsoft’s Bay Area sites in California, including Microsoft’s new Silicon Valley Campus, also will fully open on Feb. 28, and “we anticipate many of our other U.S. locations will follow suit as conditions allow,” Capossela said.
