Follow Facebook And Amazon, Microsoft Gives IDR 21.7 Million Bonus To Support Its Employees Working In The Midst Of A Pandemic

JAKARTA – In the midst of the global pandemic, the US technology giant Microsoft gave its employees a pandemic bonus of 1,500 US dollars (equivalent to Rp. 21.7 million).

The bonus is the company's support to all its employees in the midst of the pandemic. Not only in the US, all Microsoft employees in various parts of the world will receive funding from the company.

Information on the injection of funds for these employees was disclosed in an internal memo from Microsoft's Chief People Officer, Kathleen Hogan, which was shared last Thursday.

In the memo, Microsoft announced to give bonuses to all employees as a form of company support to its employees after going through difficult times due to Covid-19. The bonus is only distributed once.

Launching TheVerge, the bonus will be given to all Microsoft employees, both contract workers and part-time employees.

However, a number of employees who work at Microsoft subsidiaries do not get bonuses such as employees at LinkedIn, ZeniMax, and GitHub. Until now, Microsoft is said to have 174,508 employees spread across the world.

Microsoft not only gives bonuses to its employees, the company also reveals that it has made a donation of $98 million (Rp1.4 trillion) to help nonprofit organizations that have been in Washington since the state was hit by the pandemic. The US technology company led by Satya Nadella This will increase the amount of donations worth 60 million US dollars (Rp. 871 billion).

Before Microsoft, other technology giants such as Amazon and Facebook had already given bonuses to their employees. Amazon gave a bonus of 300 US dollars or equivalent to Rp. 4.3 million, while Facebook gave a bonus of 1,000 US dollars or Rp. 14.5 million to support the performance of its employees in the midst of this pandemic.