Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote Workforce

Here’s what it found about meetings, culture, workdays, and engagement.

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Erik Anderson

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Erik Anderson

July 15, 2020 · Long read

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Do We Really Need the Office?

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The Implications of Working Without an Office

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Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote Workforce

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Building Work-Life Boundaries in the WFH Era

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A Brief History of the Modern Office

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In Praise of the Office

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What Is an Office For?

Teams that don’t communicate. Market disruption. Unidentified logjams. Employee burnout. Lost efficiency. As part of a group of data scientists, management consultants, and engineers at Microsoft, we help companies harness behavioral data to measure and solve these kinds of challenges — the kinds that firms feel but usually cannot see.

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Natalie Singer-Velush is a marketing communications manager and the editor of Microsoft Workplace Insights. She creates thought leadership about people analytics, behavioral science, the future of work, and the power of data to help organizations and people innovate, evolve, and succeed. As a former journalist and an MFA in a sea of MBAs, she thrives on bringing data to life through storytelling.
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Kevin Sherman is a director on the Workplace Analytics team at Microsoft. He leads a team of experts who apply storytelling, behavioral science, and corporate strategy to product strategy and customer delivery. He’s also been leading Microsoft’s own use of Workplace Analytics since its acquisition of VoloMetrix in 2015.
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Erik Anderson is a director on Microsoft’s workplace intelligence team. He has spent his career building teams and methods for data-driven problem solving and transformation, and currently leads a team that helps customers harness the power of their collaboration data.

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