Microsoft releases 5th edition of Work Trend Index

Key research data:

• You can buy available intelligence: Intelligence is becoming abundant, accessible and available on demand.With the emergence of AI and the agents that can reason, plan and act as digital workforce, companies can scale capacity as needed.
  • 82% of leaders they say they are confident they will use digital work to expand workforce capacity in the next 12 to 18 months.
  • 53% of leaders they say 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 by a meeting, email or chat & DO once every two minutes during working hours.
• Teams of human agents will take down the org chart: With on-demand experience, the traditional org chart can be replaced with an Organizational chart: a dynamic, cross-functional organizational model built for speed.
  • 46% of leaders they say their companies are using agents to fully automate workflows or processes.
  • The #1 reason employees turned to AI instead of a colleague this year is availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Each employee becomes a chief agent: someone who builds, delegates and manages agents to amplify their impact by working smarter, scaling faster and taking control of their career in the age of AI.
  • 67% leaders are familiar with or extremely familiar with agents, against 40% of officials.
  • 79% of leaders believe AI will accelerate their careers, against 67% of officials.  

Copilot product updates for Microsoft 365:

• The M365 Copilot app combines chat history, pinned conversation prompts, and agents in one navigation pane, with the goal of reducing clutter and improving discoverability of essential features.
• The Create app microsoft 365 Copilot simplifies content creation by 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 is designed to make information localization faster.It uses semantic index to understand what you are looking for and extracts from your organizational data and external sources to get quick answers, eliminating the need to switch between different sources.
• The Copilot Notebooks allows you to get answers and create with Copilot in a unified workspace that brings together all your relevant content - COPilot chats, files, pages, meeting notes, links, and more.
• The Investigating Agent announced recently on March 25, it provides organizations with the resources they would expect from a highly paid strategist or researcher by combining the latest advanced reasoning models with a user's work data.
• The Analyst Agent25 March, provides employees with access to their own data analyst 24 hours a day, 7 days a week who knows Python, is available directly on Copilot and uses chain-of-thinking reasoning so you can check your work.