Microsoft releases 5th edition of Work Trend Index

Main research data:

  • You can buy available intelligence: Intelligence is becoming abundant, accessible and available on demand. With the emergence of AI and the agents who can reason, plan and act as a digital workforce, companies can scale capacity as needed.
    • 82% of leaders They say they are confident that they will use digital work to expand the capacity of the workforce in the next 12 to 18 months.
    • 53% of leaders It is said that productivity should increase, but 80% of the global workforce – Both employees and leaders – say they don’t have enough time or energy to do their job.
    • Employees are interrupted 275 times per day for a meeting, email or chat – once every two minutes during working hours.
  • The Human Agent Teams will overturn the organizational chart: With on-demand experience, the traditional organization chart can be replaced by an organizational chart: a dynamic and multifunctional organizational model built for speed.
    • 46% of leaders They say their companies are using agents to fully automate workflows or processes.
    • The reason #1 why employees resorted to AI instead of a colleague this year is availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  • Each employee becomes an agent boss: Someone who builds, delegates and manages agents to broaden their impact – working smarter, climbing faster and taking control of their career in the AI era.
    • 67% of the leaders are familiar or extremely familiar with the agents, against 40% of employees.
    • 79% leaders believe that AI will accelerate their careers, 67% of the employees.  

Copilot product updates for Microsoft 365:

  • The M365 Copilot app It combines chat history, pinned conversation prompts and agents on a navigation panel, with the aim of reducing clutter and improving the discovery capacity of essential resources.
  • The create app In Microsoft 365 CoPilot simplifies content creation, allowing users to start with a template or share an idea in their natural language and use CoPilot to generate custom content for their unique ideas, organization data, and brand guidelines.
  • The Copilot Search It was designed to make information location faster. It uses the semantic index to understand what you are looking for and extracts it from your organizational data and external sources to get quick responses, eliminating the need to switch between different sources.
  • Copilot Notebooks Allows you to get answers and build with CoPilot in a unified workspace that gathers all your relevant content – CoPilot chats, files, pages, meeting notes, links and more.
  • the research agent, Recently announced on March 25, it provides organizations with the resources they would expect from a highly paid strategist or researcher, combining the latest models of advanced reasoning with a user’s work data.
  • The Analyst Agent, recently announced on March 25th, provides employees with access to their own data analyst 24/7, who knows Python, is available directly at Copilot, and uses the thought chain reasoning so that you can check your work.