Considering most of MS who travels are either sales or on-site consultants, this “discuss with manager” thing is extremely ambiguous. Are you going to be the one saying no to a large enterprise customer and halt a 50M deal?

I also it particularly self-serving in the sense that it pointed out that since there were no sick MS employees yet, the “risk to Microsoft” was low.

No mention of remote working or families in the e-mail either. Biggest risk is to elderly relatives, not necessarily young turks who might just be carriers, or the f*cking company.