Today Satya Nadella despatched an e-mail to all Microsoft workers, congratulating them for his or her efforts to assist their firm and the world in combatting the consequences of the COVID-19 disaster and serving to first responders all over the world be extra environment friendly and productive in their very own efforts.
What is hanging is what number of alternative ways Microsoft helps, from the mundane of blocking COVID-19 spam, to donating Teams free to the NHS, to esoteric ones equivalent to mapping the immune system’s response to COVID-19, and lots of, many extra.
Team,
COVID-19 is impacting everybody all over the world and each facet of our every day lives: our social interactions, our household life, our communities, and, after all, how all of us work at Microsoft. As I shared at our all-hands on Thursday, I need to share my deepest thanks to every of you for the artistic and collaborative methods you’ve stepped as much as assist our firm and our clients throughout this disaster. It’s occasions like this that remind us that every of us has one thing to contribute and the significance of coming collectively as a group. Please know that the senior management group and I are enthusiastic about you and prioritizing the well being and security of you and your households at the beginning. We are assembly and dealing every day on how we are able to greatest assist you throughout this time. And it’s been so gratifying to see how you’re pitching in to assist.
It is in occasions of nice disruption and uncertainty that our potential to remain grounded in our sense of objective and stay true to our id is of the utmost significance. I’ve mirrored on this as I’ve seen the good work throughout our firm and all over the world prior to now a number of weeks.
At the beginning of the yr (which in some methods feels so way back), I wrote on LinkedIn concerning the objective of an organization, utilizing Oxford professor Colin Mayer’s definition of “producing profitable solutions to problems of people and planet” and the way our firm mission is aligned to this idea. This rings true now greater than ever, as we work to deal with the influence of COVID-19.
We are steadfast in our mission to empower each particular person and each group on the planet to realize extra. No one firm goes to unravel a problem like this alone, and it’s going to take the personal and public sectors working collectively to show the tide on COVID-19. Our distinctive function as a platform and instruments supplier permits us to attach the dots, deliver collectively an ecosystem of companions, and allow organizations of all sizes to construct the digital functionality required to deal with these challenges. During this extraordinary time, it’s clear that software program, as probably the most malleable device ever created, has an enormous function to play throughout each trade and all over the world. Our duty is to make sure that the instruments we offer are as much as the duty.
I’m pleased with how we’re adopting a primary responder mindset throughout the corporate, working with so many shoppers on the entrance strains, together with governments, well being suppliers, colleges, meals suppliers, and different industrial clients vital to the continuity and stability of companies in each nation. There’s little doubt that the workflow of our jobs is altering quick, with a lot of you doing a lot of your work remotely for the primary time, some whereas additionally caring for kids at dwelling. I actually am studying, as I’m sharing a house workplace with my two teenage daughters and juggling between their eLearning schedules and my Teams conferences. There is not any playbook for this and having that deep empathy and understanding for one another’s conditions is required now greater than ever. I’ve seen numerous examples of colleagues throughout the corporate stepping as much as meet this problem – each the problem of their very own circumstances and that of their clients.
We’re offering vital infrastructure for the communities the place we function, and they’re relying on us. Examples abound: In healthcare, our know-how is getting used for telemedicine, enabling user-intuitive options to share…
