Advancing organizational science using network machine learning to measure innovation in the workplace
| Carolyn Buractaon, Amber Hoak, David Tittsworth, Neha Shah, and Jonathan Larson
Is innovation another loss due to the global COVID-19 pandemic? Indicators reveal challenges to overcome—as well as opportunities to build on our collective experience gained (opens in new tab) in the last year. Measuring collaboration using network machine learning provides…
In the news | Microsoft Worklab
The Next Great Disruption Is Hybrid Work—Are We Ready?
Exclusive research and expert insights into a year of work like no other reveal urgent trends leaders should consider as hybrid work unfolds. We’re on the brink of a disruption as great as last year’s sudden shift to remote work:…
In the news | Microsoft Industry Blogs
How virtual health is transforming care delivery
COVID-19 caused a massive acceleration in the use of virtual health services and has helped expand access to care at a time when the ongoing pandemic has severely restricted patients’ ability to see their doctors. Virtual health technology is enabling…
In the news | Harvard Business Review
What a Year of WFH Has Done to Our Relationships at Work
More than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic and WFH, new research from Microsoft shows that employees and teams are becoming much more siloed. In particular, connections with people outside our immediate teams has shrunk dramatically, leading to fewer places…
In the news | Microsoft Industry Blogs
Helping communities accelerate COVID-19 vaccinations at the last mile
A little more than a year ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic. Since then, COVID-19 has dramatically impacted every person’s life across the globe. We are now experiencing how fragile and…
In the news | The Seattle Times
‘Steps to the toilet and coffee machine’: Are we working from home, or living at work?
With the pandemic maybe now ebbing, the talk of the town for those of us who were lucky enough not to be on the front lines is about going back to work. Or not. “Most remote employees don’t want to…
Many of us will remember 2020 for masks, social distancing, loss in all its facets, and the upheaval of how we approached our daily lives in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. IT decision makers and business decision makers had…
In the news | Microsoft Innovation Stories
Building trust at the origin
Despite all the positives of synthetic media–create expression, educational applications, assistive technologies, entertainment–there’s a downside. It’s increasingly hard to detect, which leaves the door open for media to be altered after publication and spread as disinformation. Project Origin aims to…
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