Microsoft tells Seattle workers to work from home if they can.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/04/coronavirus-live-updates/#link-IQWAANVOW5BVJMHHFOAKABGF4M

Microsoft recommends employees who can work from home do so through March 25

Microsoft updated its work-from-home policy late Wednesday amid the coronavirus outbreak, recommending that all employees who are in jobs that can be done from home to do so through March 25.

The software giant’s Redmond, Wash., headquarters neighbors Kirkland, where residents in a nursing facility have been particularly hard hit by the virus. The new policy comes after health officials in King County earlier Wednesday urged employees throughout the region to telecommute for the next three weeks, if possible. The new Microsoft rules are in response to those recommendations, Microsoft executive vice president Kurt DelBene wrote in an email to employees.
“Taking these measures will ensure your safety and also make the workplace safer for those that need to be onsite,” DelBene wrote.

Employees who work in Microsoft’s data centers, its retail stores or other jobs in the region that require them to be on-site should continue to go to work, DelBene wrote. The company is advising all workers who are over 60, who have underlying health conditions such as heart disease, whose immune systems are compromised, and those who are pregnant to avoid interaction in large groups or public settings, as the county recommended.

DelBene also advised employees to postpone travel to its Seattle-area offices, as well as its Bay Area campuses, “unless essential for the continuity of Microsoft.”

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1. My daughter is working from home this week in Seattle

She works for a law firm.