Microsoft Places Preview
Transform your spaces into engaging places with a new AI-powered connected workplace app.
Solutions
Solve flexible work challenges with Microsoft Places
- Empower workplace flexibility and schedule coordination. Microsoft Places works across your everyday apps—so you can stay in the flow of work.
- Find the best work patterns for teams by establishing expectations and adjusting the rhythm to meet the needs of the group.
- Plan face-to-face collaboration by sending an in-person meeting invite, and let attendees RSVP as in-person or remote.
- Reserve the right rooms, desks, or work areas to meet your needs using places finder, or ask Copilot to manage your bookings.
- Access Places from your Outlook calendar and get recommendations on the best in-office days based on your collaborators and meetings.
- View the people and experiences at a specific location—or across your workplace.
- Discover where your colleagues are working, so you can build deeper connections at your workplace.
- Turn chat into face-to-face conversations—like syncing up for lunch or meeting in a conference room to collaborate.
- Places can connect with partner apps and services—like IT requests or dining apps—to enrich the workplace and streamline operations.
- Better manage your workplace by comparing your planned versus actual attendance with organizational-level data.
- Gain insights on the desks and rooms that are used most, and get suggestions about how to adjust your spaces to better suit your needs.
- Set up automatic room release policies to ensure rooms are used as efficiently as possible—and aren’t sitting booked but unused.
- Empower strategic decisions by diving deeper into data around your directory, organization, and space assignment.
- Get proactive insights and recommendations about your organization to manage your space more effectively.
Benefits
Reimagine flexible work with AI
Coordinate
Know where to work to achieve the right outcomes. Align and manage schedules to take advantage of valuable in-person collaboration.
Modernize
Build connections and improve workplace experiences with intelligent technology. Create a hybrid work environment that’s responsive to everyone’s needs.
Optimize
Reduce costs and increase engagement across your workplace. Maximize your ROI by knowing how to make the most out of the space you have.
CUSTOMER STORIES
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Industry-leading partners
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Next steps
Try Microsoft Places Preview
Begin your journey with Microsoft Places to improve coordination across your workforce and get intelligent insights about your spaces.
Frequently asked questions
- Microsoft Places is a new AI-powered connected workplace app that reimagines flexible work. It helps you coordinate where work happens, modernize the workplace experience and improve employee connections, and optimize the workplace based on changing employee needs.
- Microsoft Places stores, uses, and accesses customer data in accordance with the Microsoft Product Terms and the Data Protection Addendum. Microsoft Places also offers admin and user controls to allow customers to use Places in compliance with applicable laws and regulations and customer policies. Please review Data Protection with Microsoft Privacy Principles | Microsoft Trust Center for more information on Microsoft's data privacy practices.
- Yes, Teams Rooms and Microsoft Places work together—creating a more comprehensive workplace story. Microsoft Places uses the data from Teams Rooms for occupancy and utilization insights to provide information on where and when people are working in your physical spaces. The combination of Places and Teams Rooms also helps drive an inclusive workplace that fosters better connections between colleagues, both for those in the office, and those participating remotely.
- Organizations that want to foster strong employee connections and get the most from their workplaces should consider using Microsoft Places. Places is not just for offices with hybrid employees. Experiences such as desk booking are important for in-office workers, and building social connections is important for fully remote workers.
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