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Work Trend Index Special Report

What Can Copilot’s Earliest Users Teach Us About Generative AI at Work?

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Work Trend Index Annual Report

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Editor's Pick

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Quick Read

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Podcast

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Generative AI

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Work Trend Index Annual Report

An illustrated montage of workers, chat windows, and emojis riffs on the theme of in-person versus remote and hybrid forms of interaction

Editor's Pick

A colorful illustration of people being launched or boosted into the sky with capes that remind the viewer of cursor pointers.

Work Trend Index Special Report

What Can Copilot’s Earliest Users Teach Us About Generative AI at Work?

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Quick Read

Colorful, 3D speech bubbles and shapes float in place while a cursor moves around and selects separate shapes which causes them to lightly bounce

Trending

A colorful portrait treatment of WorkLab guest Eric Horvitz

Podcast

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Generative AI

Generative AI

AI will revolutionize work. Learn how

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Quick Read

Why Using a Polite Tone with AI Matters

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Podcast

LinkedIn VP Aneesh Raman on Why Adaptability Is the Skill of the Moment

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Instant Insights

What We Mean When We Say AI is “Usefully Wrong”

Practical Guidance

The WorkLab Guides

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AI + Sellers

How Sellers Can Use AI to Better Engage with Customers

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AI + Marketers

How Marketers Can Use AI to Unlock Breakthrough Creativity

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In-Person Time

How to Make In-Person Time Count

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Work-Life Balance

How to Regain Work-Life Balance in the Age of Hybrid

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Leadership

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  1. How Copilot Turns Everyone Into A Manager
  2. Author Kate O’Neill on Why Leaders Should Embrace Optimism amid Uncertainty
  3. Satya Nadella Talks to Adam Grant about the Future of Work

Culture

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  1. What New Terms Like ‘Goblin Mode’ Reveal about Work
  2. Office Life Doesn’t Have to Go Back to How It Used to Be
  3. What People Want in a Job Right Now

Innovation

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  1. Seven Tips for Having a Great Conversation with Copilot
  2. The Art and Science of Working with AI
  3. How 6 Experts Use Next-Generation AI

Collaboration

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  1. With Copilot, Every Meeting Is a ‘Digital Artifact’
  2. The Key Ingredient in Every Copilot Conversation
  3. In the Changing Role of the Office, It’s All about Moments That Matter

Performance

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  1. There Are No Shortcuts to High Performance
  2. How I Prompt: 11 Leaders Share Their Favorite AI Time-Savers
  3. What We Mean When We Say AI is “Usefully Wrong”

Wellbeing

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  1. How This ESPN Leader Works Now: A Paper Planner, Next-Gen AI, and a ‘Snow White’ Garden
  2. How I Hybrid: Meditation, the Perfect Pen, and Drawing Boundaries
  3. Yes, People Miss Their Work Friends
In the News
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Watch Satya Nadella discuss artificial intelligence on Bloomberg’s The Circuit

Jared Spataro on the future of work

Watch Jared Spataro discuss AI and the future of work on Bloomberg TV

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BBC

AI optimism: How embracing artificial intelligence is getting workers ahead

CNBC

Here are the top skills you will need for an ‘A.I.-powered future,’ according to new Microsoft data

Microsoft

AI Anthology: A collection of essays on the future of AI

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