ai in the workplace

Here’s a summary of key findings from the Newser article “Survey: Some Use AI to Avoid Their Colleagues,” which explains why office workers are increasingly turning to AI rather than colleagues for assistance, based on Microsoft’s 2025 Work Trend Index Report: Survey Background: Based on a...

Measuring the impact of Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI at Microsoft requires more than just a glance at adoption numbers or a list of new features—it demands a critical look at how this generational leap in enterprise AI is transforming workflows, accessibility, productivity, and even the...

A year can feel like a lifetime in the fast-paced world of enterprise technology, but few transformations have been as pronounced as the one sparked by Microsoft 365 Copilot. AI—the perennial promise of productivity—has finally gotten personal, practical, and powerful, reshaping the heartbeat of...

Once upon a time, the business world trembled at the mere mention of “disruption.” Then came digital transformation, promising slick workflows, fleets of cloud servers, and enough dashboards to make your eyes water. Now, Microsoft is ringing in a newer, even shinier era: the rise of the...

If you’ve ever dreamed of the day when you could delegate your most painful spreadsheet wrangling, search slogging, or death-by-PowerPoint sessions to an AI coworker who doesn’t judge—well, Microsoft just handed you that golden ticket. Or perhaps, they’ve just handed your boss an infinite...

Microsoft’s AI is starting to look less like a humble office assistant and more like a caffeine-fueled creative partner who—let’s be honest—won’t remember your birthday but can probably generate a stunning, photorealistic image of your hypothetical cake. Microsoft 365 Copilot’s most recent...

If you’ve been enjoying the serene, reliably human chaos of your workplace—complete with coffee stains, mystery meetings, and that one person who never unmutes on Teams—brace yourself. Microsoft is ringing the corporate dinner bell on what it calls the “Firm Frontier,” and AI-powered coworkers...

Something wickedly intelligent this way comes, and its name is Microsoft 365 Copilot’s new AI agents: Researcher and Analyst. Just when IT departments across the enterprise were wrapping their heads around AI’s impact on productivity, along comes another wave of features promising to make work...

Microsoft Copilot in Teams promises the dream we’ve all had during the blur of post-pandemic, hybrid work—walking into a meeting where not a single moment, action item, or deadline slips through the cracks, and you barely need to scribble a note or play “who said what” detective afterward. It’s...

Just when you thought your cleverly color-coded Outlook calendar was the apex of workplace innovation, the 2025 Work Trend Index saunters into the boardroom with a bombshell: the age of the "Frontier Firm" is upon us. Microsoft’s latest annual peek behind the digital curtain warns (and, let’s be...

When Microsoft unveils a new iteration of its 365 Copilot, IT pros everywhere simultaneously groan and cheer, bracing themselves for a tide of AI-fueled features that promise both productivity nirvana and—let’s be honest—a fresh source of service desk tickets. Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: A New...

If you’re anything like me, you’ve wasted more hours than you’d ever admit just searching for that one, elusive spreadsheet. The good news: Microsoft apparently hears our cries echoing from the cubicles of the world and has unleashed a formidable upgrade to Microsoft 365 Copilot—a bold...

In a recent experiment conducted by the Washington Post, a panel of communication experts, including Harvard instructor and author Carmine Gallo, evaluated five prominent AI writing assistants: ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, and Anthropic’s Claude. The objective was to...

The future of knowledge work is being quietly, and sometimes not so quietly, rewritten by silicon wordsmiths and digital brainstormers: artificial intelligence has left the realm of science fiction, and is now squatting in meeting rooms, quietly nudging us to stay on topic, challenging our...

Agility is the watchword as the modern workplace begins to resemble not just a battalion of knowledge workers, but a buzzing digital anthill overseen by tireless AI agents and copilots. This isn’t some distant sci-fi abstraction—it's now a daily reality for leading organizations, and for a...

Microsoft Copilot Studio’s Game-Changing "Computer Use" Tool Revolutionizing Enterprise AI Automation Enterprises today are on a constant quest to harness artificial intelligence to transform workflows, automate processes, and enhance employee productivity. Among the vanguard in this AI...

Move over, tedious button-mashing and mind-numbing form-filling—Microsoft is sending in the bots, and they’re your new virtual office colleagues. In what could be one of the most under-hyped revolutions in the workplace since the advent of instant coffee, Microsoft has unveiled a "computer use"...

When your coffee machine is quieter than your IT department at 7 a.m., you know you’re living in the age of automation. And if you haven’t heard the latest murmurings from Redmond, let’s just say Microsoft is serving up far more than silent lobbies and vanilla chatbots: the company's Copilot...