Microsoft Is Giving 3 Months Paid Leave For Parents To Take Care Of Their Kids

Microsoft might win the award for the best company during this COVID-19 crisis if there was one, I mean -- closely followed by maybe Facebook.

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Microsoft has announced that it will be offering three month¡¯s paid parental leave to all of its full-time employees, no questions asked. What's more, it's also being flexible in letting their employees decide how they want to take this leave.

This comes right after Washington State Schools have announced their closure for the rest of the school year -- and was first reported by Business Insider after it got its hands on a leaked internal memo.

Parents working at Microsoft are given the flexibility to arrange the leaves -- whether three months at a stretch or a few days a week. Microsoft is calling it ¡®12-week Paid Pandemic School and Childcare Closure Leave.¡±

Facebook last month had also announced that it would be offering $1000 to each one of its 45,000 employees to help them take care during COVID-19 crisis, while also promising to play standard hourly salaries, even with lesser workloads. They also promised to pay six months salary as a bonus to its full-time employees, which was a first.

Other tech giants like Twitter and Google have also promised to pay their contractual employees, apart from their regular full-time staff.

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Microsoft has been working to help people out during COVID-19 crisis. It created its own COVID-19 tracker that helps people online keep a track of new COVID-19 cases in their country.

Additionally, Microsoft has been working dedicatedly on its Microsoft Teams videoconferencing app, bringing in new features to help people stay productive amidst the lockdown. It launched a couple of features in the past few weeks to make it more user friendly.

It introduced a way to eliminate crunching sounds of chips while eating, it also brought in background changing feature like on Zoom to make the calls more interesting.