{"id":13757,"date":"2025-09-10T10:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/13757\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:53:17","slug":"microsoft-announces-phased-approach-to-office-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/13757\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft announces phased approach to office return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If needed, you can request an exception by Friday, September 19.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Employees assigned to other offices in the US will receive the timeline of their return soon, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/09\/flexible-work-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to Coleman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For employees outside of the US, the CPO said they are planning for their office return in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For some of you, this is not a change. For others this may be a bigger adjustment, which is exactly why we&#8217;re providing time to plan thoughtfully,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Not about reducing headcount<\/p>\n<p>The changes come at Microsoft as Coleman pointed out data that employees thrive when they work together in person more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;If needed, you can request an exception by Friday, September 19.&#8221; Employees assigned to other offices in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1144,16130,111,43,139,69,16129],"class_list":["post-13757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-human-resources","tag-hybrid-work","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-office-return"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}