Microsoft employees slept in data centers during pandemic lockdown, exec says
While most Microsoft employees worked from home at the height of the pandemic, a select few worked at critical data center sites, and even stayed the night.
Hasnain says:
Amazing is not a word I’d use to describe this but then again I’m not an HR exec.
“"I heard amazing stories about people actually sleeping in data centers," Kristen Roby Dimlow, corporate vice president for total rewards, performance and human resources business insights, said during a conversation with Morgan Stanley analysts Josh Baer and Mark Carlucci. "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."
Generally data centers are not places where people sleep. Aisles can be hot from air coming off of servers, and cold because of air conditioning to prevent machines from overheating. A Microsoft spokesperson would not say where employees slept in data centers or how many did it.”
Posted on 2021-06-14T23:02:24+0000