Employee Experience

Sep 7, 2023   |   Danielle Yedinak

Driving the transformation of Microsoft’s employee experience with investment prioritization

The transformation of Microsoft’s employee experience has a key pillar: giving employees confidence that their voice matters. A fundamental element to empowering employees is transforming employee signals to an actionable list of employee challenges and needs. In the first and second posts in this series, we explored strategies to capture employee signals and an approach...

Aug 7, 2023   |   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 as we might say we’re open to feedback from our peers, human nature can make...

Jun 30, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

How Microsoft’s IT legacy is powering its future

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz1ScJprOFQ, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Watch part two of our interview with IT legend Patrice Trousset to learn more about how our rich IT legacy at Microsoft is powering our future. Here at Microsoft,...

Jun 21, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

How Microsoft’s pivot to generative AI is being fueled by its rich IT history

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNW_SIdL_xo, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Watch part one of our interview with IT legend Patrice Trousset to find out how our rich IT history has positioned us to be ready to deploy generative AI...

Apr 21, 2023   |   Jason Kellington

Cultivating a culture of learning at Microsoft with Viva Learning

We’re using Microsoft Viva Learning to foster a learning culture, empower our learners, and fuel innovation and growth at Microsoft. Our Microsoft learning teams can enable learning in the flow of work and make it easy for our employees to find the type of learning content that they need. We can centralize and enhance the...

Apr 10, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

How AI will change the employee experience at Microsoft—and at your organization

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUn670JE8mE, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Generative AI is the next frontier of employee experience. In our latest spotlight video, Inside Track leader Keith Boyd sits down with Principal Software Engineer and Microsoft Digital AI...

Apr 6, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

Enabling hybrid work internally at Microsoft with ‘digital fabric’ Microsoft Teams

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Eq1oBDf9A&t=2s, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Microsoft Teams is enabling seamless collaboration in the hybrid workplace internally at Microsoft. In the most recent episode of our Inside Track “Spotlight” video series, Microsoft Inside Track leader...

Mar 29, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

Sharing how Microsoft uses Signature Microsoft Teams Rooms

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGWv5JHuwms, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” The Microsoft team that helped develop Signature Microsoft Teams Rooms is now deploying the meeting room platform across the company. The Microsoft employees who helped develop Signature Microsoft Teams...

Mar 1, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

How Microsoft gets a boost from partnering with its workers’ councils

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grMzZ798W30, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Watch to see how Microsoft is partnering with its workers’ councils. In the second episode of our new Inside Track “Spotlight” video series, Microsoft Inside Track leader Keith Boyd...

Feb 10, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Five key learnings from Microsoft’s Windows 11 upgrade

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d4z5N5XCsA, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Watch as Biswa Jaysingh, a principal group program manager on the Microsoft Digital Employee Experience team, shares five key learnings from releasing Windows 11 across Microsoft. Jaysingh shares how...

Feb 8, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Digital transformation spotlight: Learning from deploying Microsoft Viva, Data and AI across Microsoft

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEI3kFWPvSQ, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Microsoft’s internal IT leaders share their learnings from deploying Microsoft Viva and Data and AI across Microsoft. Welcome to the first episode of “Spotlight on Digital Transformation”, a new...