Microsoft isn’t giving up plans to transition to collaborative work spaces, but it is making adjustments for the effects of COVID-19. So said the company’s head of global real estate and security, Michael Ford, on the CBRE podcast The Weekly Take.

“We’ve done our research and we’re transitioning from individual offices to team-based spaces, and those spaces are for eight to twelve engineers, employees, working in a team room or a neighborhood,” Ford told CBRE’s Spencer Levy.


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