culture

November 11, 2024

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Lukas Velush

The AI Revolution: How Microsoft Digital (IT) is responding with an AI Center of Excellence

The AI revolution is here, so what are you going to do about it? This question is for IT leaders, IT practitioners, and others out there who need to decide how your companies will respond to the onslaught of AI…
October 14, 2024

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Keith Boyd

Powering a generational shift in IT at Microsoft with AI

As the IT team at Microsoft, we in Microsoft Digital have experienced monumental shifts in the way we build, deploy, manage, and support information technology. The most recent generational shift happened in 2020, spurred by the global pandemic and subsequent…
September 7, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Empowering employees after the call: Enabling and securing Microsoft Teams meeting data retention at Microsoft

Microsoft Teams meetings help our globally distributed and digitally connected employees create meaningful hybrid work experiences. When those meetings are recorded and transcribed or their data becomes available to AI-powered digital assistants, their impact increases. Although these features have proven…
August 30, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Redesigning how we work at Microsoft with generative AI

Generative AI has emerged as a transformational force in computing, but it’s not always clear how to utilize it when designing new products. At Microsoft, our teams are learning how to incorporate Microsoft 365 Copilot and other new AI technology…
June 4, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Getting hybrid right: How we’re transforming large meetings at Microsoft

It’s a new era, and even meeting rooms must reinvent themselves. “In 2024, meeting rooms are reinterviewing for their jobs,” says Matthew Marzynski, a principal product manager for Microsoft Digital, our IT organization here at Microsoft. And just like any…
May 14, 2024

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Dawn Lee

Disability as a strength: Three practices to help you create inclusive experiences at your company

Our mission at Microsoft is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our Microsoft Digital Employee Experience team lives this mission every day by empowering employees across the organization with inclusive digital and physical…
April 12, 2024

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Laura Oxford

Avatar etiquette: How Microsoft employees are using avatars for Microsoft Teams in their meetings

We all know we’re not going back to the way we worked before the COVID-19 pandemic. Flexible work is here to stay. We’ve learned a lot over the past few years, but really, we’re still at the very start of…
March 21, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Bonding in 3D: How Microsoft employees are finding connection in Microsoft Teams

Several years into the era of hybrid work, most of us are used to appearing in a Brady Bunch-style gallery. We select an emoji to ask a question or applaud an achievement and still have to remember “unmute” when it’s…
November 20, 2023

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Lukas Velush

Transforming the executive boardroom meeting experience at Microsoft with Microsoft Teams Rooms

Executive boardrooms are where big decisions are made and important customer deals are won. When much of the world started working from home and many companies adopted a hybrid work model, we here at Microsoft began rethinking the way we…
November 15, 2023

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Jason Kellington

Fueling Microsoft’s knowledge sharing culture with Microsoft Viva Topics

At Microsoft, we’re evolving our culture of learning. Part of that evolution is ensuring that our employees always have access to the information they need. We’re using Microsoft Viva Topics to consolidate and govern the vast breadth of collaborative knowledge…
September 26, 2023

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Lukas Velush

Culture, the cloud, and security: learning from Microsoft’s digital transformation

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifym9DmqatA, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” A lot has changed in Microsoft Digital Employee Experience—our internal IT organization—since CEO Satya…
August 7, 2023

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Lukas Velush

Brain-friendly employee feedback turning the tide at Microsoft

[Editor’s note: This content was written to highlight a particular event or moment in time. Although that moment has passed, we’re republishing it here so you can see what our thinking and experience was like at the time.] As much…

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