Over the past three years, the pace and intensity of work have skyrocketed. People are struggling to do their jobs while grappling with always-on communications, inefficient meetings, and information overload. “Sixty-four percent of people told us that they felt like they didn’t have the time or the energy to do their jobs,” says Jared Spataro, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of modern work and business applications.
Can AI help lift the burden? In this conversation, Spataro and Colette Stallbaumer, general manager of Microsoft 365 and Future of Work, discuss Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index report , which explores these dilemmas through surveys of 31,000 people in 31 countries and trillions of Microsoft 365 productivity signals, along with labor trends from the LinkedIn Economic Graph. They also share their experiences using the recently announced AI tool Microsoft 365 Copilot to work more efficiently.
Spataro and Stallbaumer’s conversation is the seventh episode for season 4 of Microsoft’s WorkLab podcast, in which business leaders, economists, designers, psychologists, and technologists explore the data and insights into why and how work is changing.
Three big takeaways from this conversation:
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Here’s a transcript of the episode 7 conversation.
