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As vaccination rates across the country continue to rise, major tech companies—which were among the first to shift to remote work early in the pandemic—say they will reopen offices with limited capacity in the coming months.

Key Facts

Uber and Microsoft announced this week they will reopen their headquarters on March 29, with Uber saying employees can come back on a voluntary basis until the site reaches 20% capacity.

Software giant SAP told the Silicon Valley Business Journal it plans to open offices in “the coming weeks,” while Facebook announced Friday it will open its Menlo Park headquarters on May 10 at 10% capacity, a spokesperson confirmed.

Cisco and Intel won’t reopen until July and August, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

In a talk on the audio chat app Clubhouse, Salesforce COO and President Bret Taylor said Thursday the company would reopen offices “soon,” though a spokeswoman told the San Francisco Chronicle, the company doesn’t have a firm timeline.

Google said in December that workers will return to the office in September 2021.

The announcements comes after several counties in the San Francisco Bay Area moved into California’s “orange” reopening tier, allowing non-essential offices to reopen at 25% of capacity. (California Gov. Gavin Newsom also announced Thursday the state will open up vaccinations to all adults over 16 on April 15.)

Tangent

In the Clubhouse talk Thursday, Salesforce President Bret Taylor revealed that in June 2020, 23% of the company’s workforce wanted to return to the office in some way. Now, that number is 72%, with the vast majority of workers saying they want to go back one or two days a week.

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