A Microsoft executive has revealed that some company employees slept in data centers during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to avoid getting stuck in lockdowns.
“I heard amazing stories about people actually sleeping in data centers,” Kristen Roby Dimlow, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for total rewards, performance and human resources business insights, said last week, according to CNBC.
“In certain countries there was huge lockdown, and so we would have our own employees choose to sleep in the data center because they were worried they’d get stuck at a roadblock, trying to go home,” she added.
A number of technology companies ordered their employees to work from home amid the pandemic, CNBC noted, but some staff members had to report in-person.
For Microsoft, that included people who worked at locations with servers for online services like Microsoft Teams and public-cloud infrastructure that helped run third-party customers’ applications, according to the business news network.
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