A Microsoft software engineer was found dead at work last month. Now his family is pleading with tech companies to lighten the load on their employees. <\/p>\n
Pratik Pandley, 35, entered the Silicon Valley campus of Microsoft on the evening of Aug. 19, Bloomberg<\/a> reported. He was found dead, face down in the office building\u2019s courtyard at about 2 a.m. the next morning. <\/p>\n Police found \u201cno signs of any suspicious activity or behavior,\u201d according to Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n He didn\u2019t have any known health issues, but the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner said it appears that he had died of a heart attack, the Palo Alto Daily Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n Community leader Satish Chandra told the newspaper that Pandley told his roommate and coworkers that he was under a lot of stress and had several projects at the same time.<\/p>\n His uncle, Manoj Pandey, said his nephew\u2019s friends told him that the software engineer worked late nights for a \u201cvery extended period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n Manoj Pandey said that tech companies should track when their employees are coming in late at night and work to ease the pressure put on them. <\/p>\n \u201cThat will probably save a life,\u201d he told the Daily Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n When asked by Bloomberg<\/a> last week for a comment, Microsoft declined. A Microsoft spokesperson also declined a request for comment from People<\/a> magazine this week. <\/p>\n \u00a9 2025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Microsoft software engineer was found dead at work last month. Now his family is pleading with tech…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[68305,159,10847,49,48,29762,11147,1849,68306,67919,165,63,68307,28149,173,2940,20537,61,68308],"class_list":["post-123513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-3d","tag-american","tag-big-tech","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-computer","tag-concrete","tag-consumer","tag-corporation","tag-headquarters","tag-logo","tag-microsoft","tag-multinational","tag-operating-systems","tag-sign","tag-software","tag-surface","tag-technology","tag-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}