Employee Experience

Jun 7, 2024   |   Inside Track staff

Microsoft Teams increases collaboration in the modern workplace at Microsoft

At Microsoft, we’re increasing the collaborative capability of teams across the company with Microsoft Teams. We’ve initiated a fundamental change in the way our employees interact and communicate, with Microsoft Teams as the hub for communicating, meeting, and calling. We’re using change management processes and education so that our people can adopt and use Teams...

Jun 3, 2024   |   Jason Kellington

Powering purpose-driven employee engagement and driving efficiency internally at Microsoft with OKRs and Microsoft Viva Goals

Employers everywhere are changing the way they think about work. As the hybrid workplace becomes the norm for many companies, employees are embracing flexible work, seeking work-life balance, and increasingly pursuing purpose and fulfillment in their work. At the same time, employers want to make sure their employees are focusing in the most impactful areas,...

May 21, 2024   |   Lukas Velush

Deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 and AI at Microsoft with our works councils

Copilot for Microsoft 365 Deployment and Adoption Guide Read our step-by-step guide on deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 at your company. It’s based on our experience deploying it here at Microsoft: Full version eBook version Version for executives eBook version for executives Thanks to our strong relationships with our works councils, we’re receiving valuable feedback...

May 2, 2024   |   Keith Boyd

Fostering employee wellbeing and improving productivity at Microsoft with Microsoft Viva Insights

Employee expectations and priorities have shifted in the new hybrid workplace. In Microsoft’s September 2022 Work Trend Index Pulse Report—a study of 20,000 people in 11 countries—48 percent of those surveyed reported that they feel burned out at work. Prior data from Microsoft’s March 2022 Work Trend Index—a study of 31,000 people in 31 countries—revealed...

Apr 23, 2024   |   Keith Boyd

Copilot for Microsoft 365 for executives: Sharing our internal deployment and adoption journey at Microsoft

Generative AI has captured the world’s attention, and businesses are taking notice. According to Microsoft’s annual Work Trends report, 70% of people would delegate as much work as possible to AI to lessen their workloads (Microsoft, Work Trends Annual Report: Will AI Fix Work? 2023). Capitalizing on this trend will mean the difference between surging...

Apr 10, 2024   |   Alex Fleck

Dining transformation at Microsoft eases the transition as employees return to work

A profound dining transformation is happening at Microsoft as the company’s employees return to an office that’s evolved into a hybrid workplace. The pandemic has changed the way we work—and with it, the way we eat. Consumer expectations are evolving as people, including employees at Microsoft, get used to seamless, on-demand ordering through mobile applications...

Mar 29, 2024   |   Angela Gamba

Work smarter in Microsoft Teams by leveraging the apps ecosystem

The use of business applications in Microsoft Teams has become a strategic advantage for many organizations, as they can accelerate the digital transformation of all business areas, generating a high demand for the Information Technology (IT) team to make these applications available. While use of apps for Microsoft Teams can be daunting for IT Teams...

Mar 22, 2024   |   Dodd Willingham

Getting to ‘search completeness’ internally at Microsoft

Microsoft is a big company with thousands of teams working in different ways based on the work they do. Despite that complexity, when our employees go looking for something, they expect an internal search portal that will find exactly what they’re looking for instantly—just like when they search on the internet. Yet when talking to...

Mar 8, 2024   |   Inside Track staff

Redefining the digitally assisted workday at Microsoft

At Microsoft, we’re creating a seamless, effortless workday experience for our employees, enabling them to manage their workday, find information, and get things done quickly and easily. We’re transforming our search and task-completion experience into a unified, informed, and automated digitally assisted workday that improves our employees’ productivity and helps them achieve more. The digitally...