It must be getting really bad: Microsoft brings back the towels
Friday, May 19, 2006 - 09:30 PM EST
"Two years after it took the ax to a range of employee benefits, Microsoft is introducing new perks for its staff. The plan, known as MyMicrosoft, was unveiled to the Redmond, Wash., masses this week," Jo Best reports for CNET News. "It also revealed that 'the towels are back,' referring to the popular towel-laundering service for sweaty staff washing at work after exercising or cycling in to campus, a perk that was axed in the benefits cull in 2004. Those cutbacks followed a call by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for the software giant to make $1 billion worth of cuts. At the time, he warned that even Microsoft's free soda policy was under review... Now, after a series of high-profile defections, including that of Kai-Fu Lee, who founded Microsoft's Chinese Labs, to Google, Microsoft is reversing its earlier stance."
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Sketchtrain" for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: That'll fix everything. We know why they're really sweating in Redmond now, don't we? Seriously, forget the towels, they're all going to need new underpants soon.
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