Microsoft isn't giving up plans to transition to collaborativework spaces, but it is making adjustments for the effects ofCOVID-19. So said the company's head of global real estate andsecurity, Michael Ford, on the CBRE podcast The Weekly Take.
"We've done our research and we're transitioning from individualoffices to team-based spaces, and those spaces are for eight totwelve engineers, employees, working in a team room or aneighborhood," Ford told CBRE's Spencer Levy.
The spaces will be equipped with "focus rooms, concentrationzones and more collaborative spaces. So that's a major shift forMicrosoft and a major change for Microsoft across our portfolio,"Ford said.
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