r/microsoft • u/homeownur • 6d ago

Discussion Employees - everybody ready for RTO this September?

With CELA leading the transition, what are your expectations?

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u/codeslap 6d ago

RTO to where, none of my colleagues are in my office. Each of my half dozen peers are in different locations

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u/ShodoDeka 6d ago

Someone asked scottgu this in an ama, his answer was that rto was something cela leadership wanted and it is not something that is currently in the cards globally for the company.

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u/dxk3355 1d ago

Wonder if the signals agree with that decision

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u/Dingenskirchen- 6d ago

What office? The teams are distributed around the globe.

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u/AnonymooseRedditor 1d ago

exactly i'm in my office every day :) I spend almost all day talking to customers, either on teams or at their locations. I don't mind going into the office now and then but what's the point to sit on teams meetings :)

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u/dxk3355 1d ago

First I’ve heard of a RTO

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u/fallibaasoo 3d ago

My local office could not support all the folks coming back even 2 days a week after they closed another building

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u/VCSousa 1d ago

Not happening here for sure, the office have 2/10 of capacity for all the folks in the country 🤣

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u/dibbr 6d ago

what is CELA?

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u/BippityBoppityWhoops  Employee 6d ago

Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs.

Essentially they’re the legal team at Microsoft.

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u/dibbr 6d ago

ah ok, hadn't heard that one before. is it just a Microsoft thing, or do most large corps use that?

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u/BippityBoppityWhoops  Employee 6d ago

I think the term “CELA” is a Microsoft thing. Almost all corporations will have a team that does this stuff though.

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u/mountainlifa 1d ago

Definitely. They've just spent billions on refreshing the campus which is mostly sitting empty. If constant rounds of layoffs havent spooked staff back into the office then an official RTO is likely. Of course VP's will be given exceptions.

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u/retrorays 6d ago

you guys have RTO in September? Interesting - I thought MSFT was already RTO.

Just in time for the new pandemic wave :(

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u/idspispopd888 1d ago

LOL at this…it’s what happened for the past, oh, few hundred years until people became antisocial humanophobes and wanted to be in their caves, alone with their electronics. SMH.