This weekly feature from S&P Global Market Intelligence, in collaboration with internet-service monitoring company ThousandEyes, aims to give remote workers insights into internet service disruptions. A total of 245 internet outages occurred globally in the week of July 31 to Aug. 6, a 24% decrease from the 323 outages recorded in the week of July 24, according to data from ThousandEyes, a network-monitoring service owned by Cisco Systems Inc. The outages for the week of July 24 were a marked increase from the 276 disruptions recorded in the week of July 17. U.S. outages also decreased 54% to 76 in the July 31 week, from the prior week's total of 167. The U.S. total comprised 31% of all global outages for the week of July 31, or 20 percentage points lower than the 51% in the prior week. ThousandEyes observed two notable outages in the previous week. An Aug. 3 disruption to Microsoft Corp.'s network affected some downstream partners and access to services running on Microsoft platforms.