Responding to COVID-19 together
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Community support What we're doing to help the community right now
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Tools for work Staying productive at home and returning to work safely
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Help for job seekers Our initiative aims to bring more digital skills to 25 million people
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Help for businesses Tools to help companies adapt and respond to new challenges
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Explore & learn Cooking, camp, cultural activities – do more and have fun at home
As the world continues to respond to COVID-19, we are working to do our part by ensuring the safety of our employees, striving to protect the health and well-being of the communities in which we operate, and providing technology and resources to our customers to help them do their best work while remote.
How we’re helping our communities
- Committing $110M more to help in Washington state
- We’ve mobilized AI for Health and funding for virus research
- How international health care organizations are using bots to help fight COVID-19
- Bing delivers new COVID-19 experiences including partnership with GoFundMe to help affected businesses
- Meet some of the unseen experts behind Microsoft’s coronavirus response
- Emergency plan has Microsoft Store employees helping people in new ways
- Thinking creatively about how to support employees, customers and the community
- More tech and cloud support for nonprofits on the frontline of COVID-19
- Microsoft continues to pay hourly workers their regular pay during time of reduced service needs
Doing business remotely and returning to work safely
- A pulse on employees’ wellbeing, six months into the pandemic
- New tools boost wellbeing and soothe the stresses of working from home
- Take steps toward a more comfortable and healthy workspace
- New ways to make virtual interactions more natural, engaging and human
- 11 security tips to help you stay safe while working or learning remotely
- How Microsoft Teams safeguards virtual conversations and protects users’ privacy
- What the disability community can teach everyone about working remotely
Resources for educators and families
- Disruptions and opportunities: lessons from the spring of 2020
- Latest updates in Microsoft Teams for education
- Schools after COVID-19: from a teaching culture to a learning culture
- Developing students’ social and emotional skills during remote learning
- UNICEF and Microsoft launch global learning platform to help address COVID-19 education crisis
- Tips for your at-home students with disabilities
Tips and technical support for doing more online
- Empowering your remote workforce with security awareness
- New tools to help IT empower employees securely in a remote work world
- 7 principles for preserving privacy while addressing COVID-19
- IT essentials for enabling remote work with Microsoft Teams
- Take these steps to enable your firstline workers today
- Enable security and management for your remote workforce
- Protecting your data and maintaining compliance in a remote work environment
Research and academia
- COVID-19 cloud testing platform has potential to help beyond pandemic
- Interactive visualizations help understand our progress against COVID-19
- Extracting COVID-19 insights from Bing search data
- Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft launch groundbreaking ImmuneCODE database to share populationwide immune response to the COVID-19 virus
- Closing the data divide: the need for open data
- COVID-19 survivors may qualify to donate plasma to accelerate the development of H-Ig therapy
- Microsoft collaborates to accelerate progress against pandemic via COVID-19 Open Research Dataset
- Microsoft co-launches C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, targets AI techniques to mitigate pandemic
- Microsoft academic resources and their application to COVID-19 research
More news and information
- New study shows digital preparedness helped organizations adapt to COVID-19
- Improving the pace of vaccine distribution through technology
- Year of the Nurse: First responders build resilience with technology and data
- Microsoft in tech partnerships to assure successful COVID-19 vaccine delivery
- How Duke University and AI for Health raced to create a COVID-19 solution for patients
- How tech can support secure, safe and equitable vaccine distribution
- Bing COVID-19 tracker shows the latest for your area and around the world