Here's what Bill Gates is doing while staying home during the pandemic. (via CNBCMakeIt)
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, during an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2016.Like millions of people around the globe, Bill Gates'due to the coronavirus. The billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder has been working from his home near Seattle.
The biggest day-to-day change for Gates? Less travel. "I used to travel a lot" for his work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he said during an interview on the podcast "Initially, Gates was concerned that working from home would hinder his personal output, and what the teams at the foundation and Microsoft could accomplish.
"When we told all these employees not to come into the office, I thought the loss of productivity actually would be quite a bit higher than it has been," Gates said. "Overall the productivity penalty for office work, including software engineering, has been way less than I would have expected."Gates also said that his children have been spending more time at home, "which, at least for me, is a nice thing," he said.
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