Microsoft employees are getting a one-time $1,500 bonus due to the pandemic
(Windows Phone Central)

A surprise payday arrives for Microsoft employees. What you need to know Microsoft is giving its employees a one-time $1,500 bonus. It`s in response to the `unique and challenging fiscal year.` Part-time and hourly workers will receive the bonus as well. It seems Microsoft employees are set to get one last stimulus check, this time directly from their employer. The tech giant has decreed that most employees will receive a one-time $1,500 bonus `in recognition of the unique and challenging fiscal year that Microsoft just completed,` according to an internal memo (via The Verge). U.S. employees, as well as those internationally, will receive the bonus, as will anyone hired before April 1, 2021 (what a cruel, retroactive April Fool`s Day joke it must be for the few employees hired that fateful day). Hourly employees and part-time workers will also receive the benefit. Two major categories of people being exempted from the perk are those hired from April onward and executives with ...