Microsoft employees slept in data centers during pandemic lockdown, exec says

Microsoft employees slept in data centers during pandemic lockdown, exec says
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7 hrs ago
Jordan Novet
Microsoft employees chose to sleep in data centers to avoid getting stuck at a roadblock, an executive said this week.
The company made several changes at its data centers during the pandemic to ensure that its workers felt safe.
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System administrator Alexander Landmann carries a server in the computer centre of Deutsche Bahn in Berlin on Oct. 22, 2020.
Microsoft employees slept in the software company's data centers during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, an executive said on Wednesday.
While many top technology companies directed their employees to work from home after Covid showed up in the U.S. in 2020, some employees were so important that they had to work on site. 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.

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