In the news | KUOW
Seattle Now: A chance to change the office
If you’re one of the many white-collar workers who left the office behind a year ago, you’re probably wondering just what’s in store when you go back. We get some insight on lessons learned from a year of remote work…
In the news | The Hill
Funding Black and Latinx community institutions is the key to vaccine equity
When our team at Duke Health launched a bilingual COVID-19 symptom monitoring program last March, we noticed over 90 percent of participants enrolling were white. We quickly started collaborating with nonprofit design studio IDEO.org on the question: how can we…
Factorized layers revisited: Compressing deep networks without playing the lottery
| Misha Khodak, Neil Tenenholtz, Lester Mackey, and Nicolo Fusi
From BiT (928 million parameters (opens in new tab)) to GPT-3 (175 billion parameters (opens in new tab)), state-of-the-art machine learning models are rapidly growing in size. With the greater expressivity and easier trainability of these models come skyrocketing training…
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…