microsoft employees pandemic bonus | Microsoft will give pandemic bonus to its employees, the amount will be more than Rs 1 lakh, Microsoft to give all its employees over Rs 1.12 lac as pandemic bonus

San Francisco : Microsoft is giving a pandemic bonus of $1,500 (over Rs 1.12 lakh) to all its employees in a challenging financial year. According to The Verge, it has seen an internal memo stating that Microsoft is gifting bonuses to all employees below the corporate vice president level on or before March 31, 2021.

This would also include part-time workers and those working on hourly rates. “Microsoft’s Chief Public Officer, Kathleen Hogan, today announced a gift to employees and will apply to all eligible employees in the US and internationally,” the report said.

These companies will not get profit

Microsoft has 175,508 employees worldwide. However, employees of its subsidiaries LinkedIn, GitHub and ZeniMax are not eligible for this pandemic bonus, the report said. It’s a gift of about $200 million to Microsoft, or profits in less than two days.

Earlier, Facebook gave $1,000 gifts to its 45,000 employees and Amazon had given a $300 holiday bonus for frontline employees.

Delay in reopening offices

Microsoft has announced a delay in reopening its offices until September, as it announced a gradual reopening of its Redmond, Washington-based headquarters and surrounding campuses from March 29 with a six-phase hybrid workplace strategy is.

Microsoft Work locations in 21 countries are currently able to accommodate additional employees at its facilities, representing approximately 20 percent of its global employee population.