Microsoft Still Pays Its Workers Even If They Cannot Go To Work Because Of The Coronavirus

On Thursday, Microsoft announced that they would pay hourly workers a normal wage even if they could not go to work as usual due to the effect of the Coronavirus.

The hourly workers in question are bus drivers and cafeteria workers who provide service to Microsoft employees. As the Coronavirus spreads, a large number of the tech giant’s employees now work from home to avoid contact with the virus. This means hourly workers have no one to provide service to, which might lead to a dramatic decrease in their income.

Microsoft’s announcement is the answer to how the Coronavirus infection is affecting businesses as now many have to work from home.

A day before making this announcement, Microsoft made public that its employees working in Puget Sound in Washington, where its headquarter located must not go to the office and continue work from home until the 25^th of March.

On the same day, some other companies have made the same announcements. Salesforce, based in Sans Francisco, allowed all of its employees in Kirkland, Seattle, and Bellevue to stay home in March.

According to Brad Smith, chief legal officer and president of Microsoft said that the company understood the hardship hourly workers face when employees spend time at home. This was why the company decided to pay the service providers the same amount they usually do before the Coronavirus struck despite the fact that their service might not be needed in the near future.

This move will ensure that 4,500 hourly workers receive full wages even when their service is temporarily unneeded.

Last week, Microsoft said that it did not expect the quarterly revenue would be met as a result of the Coronavirus.

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