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Microsoft is offering employee parents 12 weeks of paid time off in order to help them deal with the school closures that have resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Implemented in early April the benefit is available to all of Microsoft’s global employees, including hourly and salaried workers. Last month Microsoft said it would continue to pay its hourly workers during the crisis.
Amanda Schiavo is an associate editor of Employee Benefit News. Follow her on Twitter at @SchiavoAmanda.
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