{"id":686763,"date":"2020-08-24T06:13:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T13:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-project&#038;p=686763"},"modified":"2023-11-15T09:47:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T17:47:55","slug":"video-meetings-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/video-meetings-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting (the) Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"mb-3 moray-highlight\">\n\t<div class=\"card-img-overlay mx-lg-0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"card-background  has-background- card-background--full-bleed\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1358\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2019\/03\/SkypeMeeting-1919x719.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"a person standing in front of a computer\" style=\"object-position: 41% 32%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2019\/03\/SkypeMeeting-1919x719.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2019\/03\/SkypeMeeting-1919x719-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2019\/03\/SkypeMeeting-1919x719-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2019\/03\/SkypeMeeting-1919x719-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2019\/03\/SkypeMeeting-1919x719-1536x1086.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<!-- Foreground -->\n\t\t<div class=\"card-foreground d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 px-g px-lg-0\">\n\t\t\t<!-- Container -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 \">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Card wrapper -->\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"w-100 w-lg-col-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Card -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card material-md-card py-5 px-md-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card-body \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/blended-reality-for-effective-workflows\/past-projects\/\" class=\"icon-link icon-link--reverse mb-2\" data-bi-cN=\"BREW Past Projects\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-glyph glyph-chevron-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBREW Past Projects\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading h2\" id=\"video-meetings-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\">Video Meetings During the COVID-19 Pandemic<\/h1>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>In common with companies around the world, from March in 2020 Microsoft employees entered a prolonged period of mandatory working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We wondered what would happen to employees\u2019 effectiveness and collegiality as all meetings went remote. From April through August 2020 we recruited 849 employees to take part in a large scale study involving two month diaries and weekly polls.\u00a0This \u2018natural experiment\u2019 highlighted the everyday reality of the difference in \u201cbeing there\u201d as against \u201cbeing remote\u201d in work situations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/video-meetings-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/?msr-tab=publications\"><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/a> for reports on our primary study and related work.<\/li>\n<li>See <strong>The New Future of Work<\/strong> site for Microsoft&#8217;s cross-organizational program to understand the impact of the pandemic on our work and the work of our customers.<\/li>\n<li>See <strong>WorkLab<\/strong> for detailed reports and actionable advice on the science of work an ingenuity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at Microsoft formed a cross-company initiative to coordinate their efforts to understand the impact of remote work and identifying opportunities to support new work practices. The initiative consists of over 50 research projects, conducted by teams that span a range of disciplines (including engineering, research, marketing, human resources, and facilities) and divisions (including Microsoft Research, Office, Windows, Azure, Xbox, GitHub, and LinkedIn).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/the-new-future-of-work\/\">The New Future of Work<\/a> site features the research that has come out of this initiative, including what we believe to be the world\u2019s largest synthesis of findings related to how people\u2019s work practices have evolved since the start of the pandemic. You can think of this site as a place to learn the science behind WorkLab, which Microsoft recently launched to share compelling stories and research-based insights about the changing nature of work. Stay tuned as we add more peer-reviewed research papers and other scholarly content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/worklab\">WorkLab<\/a> is a new digital publication devoted to illuminating the future of work, grounded in research and the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From March in 2020 Microsoft employees entered a prolonged period of mandatory working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We wondered what would happen to employees&#8217; effectiveness and collegiality as all meetings went remote. 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