A data table listing Microsoft's five major leased office properties in King County's Eastside, including locations in Issaquah and Bellevue, with square footage ranging from 382,000 to 749,694 sq ft and lease expirations from 2023–2025. The graphic notes Microsoft leases approximately 5 million square feet in King County beyond its 10-million-square-foot owned headquarters campus.
Broderick Group described Microsoft’s possible move out of Bellevue as a “catastrophic blow” to the market. Anthony Bolante | PSBJ Microsoft Corp. is gradually confirming its plans to relinquish office space on the Eastside, putting Bellevue’s real estate market on an unhealthy trend. The Redmond-based software maker doesn’t plan to renew leases on 1.1 million
Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, Microsoft has been tracking the shift to remote work through their Worklab research division. But unlike other companies and pundits with various agenda, it has been doing something approaching unbiased research and legitimate analysis. Microsoft is doing a great public service in pursuing these studies. As we’ve pointed
Employees think they’re being just as productive as ever. Bosses aren’t buying it. New data from Microsoft’s Work Trend Index, which surveyed 20,000 employees across 11 countries, finds that despite early signs of a productivity boom during the pandemic—when many workers traded commuting time for more hours of working from home—there’s a steep divide between how
