Employee Experience

August 6, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Buzzing on Microsoft Teams Rooms technology internally at Microsoft

There’s been a lot of buzz around The Hive, our laboratory for building and testing new meeting room technology with Microsoft Teams Rooms. And for good reason—The Hive is where we in Microsoft Digital (MSD), Microsoft’s IT organization, create cutting-edge…
June 17, 2024

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Keith Boyd

Transforming Microsoft with Microsoft Teams: Collaborating seamlessly, teaming up fearlessly

On March 13, 2017, Microsoft announced the general availability of one of our most important products ever. It wasn’t an update to the Windows operating system or a new Microsoft Azure service. It was the launch of Microsoft Teams, an…
June 7, 2024

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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…
June 3, 2024

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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…
May 21, 2024

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Lukas Velush

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

Thanks to our strong relationships with our works councils, we’re receiving valuable feedback that we’re using to improve our products while also deploying them faster and more fully to our employees. How are we doing this? By addressing compliance requirements…
May 2, 2024

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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…
April 23, 2024

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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:…
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…
April 10, 2024

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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…
March 29, 2024

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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…
March 22, 2024

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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…
March 14, 2024

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Angela Gamba

Working in a phygital world: Why businesses need to rethink their workspace experiences now

“Phygital” (physical plus digital) is a marketing term that’s often used to describe the blending of digital experiences with physical ones. As employees’ and customers’ ways of interaction proliferate, companies aim to seamlessly integrate them. Nothing has been impacted more…

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