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.
Microsoft employees chose to sleep in data centers to avoid getting stuck at a roadblock, an executive said this week.
While many top technology companies directed their employees to work from home after Covid showed up in the U.S. in 2020, some employees were so important that they had to work on site. That was the case for a select few who worked at the locations containing the servers for online services like Microsoft Teams, as well as public-cloud infrastructure powering third-party customers' applications.
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.
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