Amber Hickman |
Microsoft has launched Microsoft Places, a new artificial intelligence-powered solution designed to streamline hybrid work environments.
Lars Johnson, general manager of collaboration copilot at Microsoft, introduced the solution at Microsoft Ignite 2024 during a session focused on modern work solutions and strategy.
The solution works with Microsoft Teams and Outlook and supports users in making decisions regarding their in-office workdays.
For example, Copilot will recommend days to go into the office based on scheduled meetings and colleague attendance. It will also manage room bookings for meetings and adapt to any changes or conflicts to ensure that meetings have the right space available.
“The idea of Microsoft Places came up a couple of years back as we started to think about what the workplace was going to look like in a post pandemic world and what was going to be the future of effective commercial real estate,” said Johnson.
Administrators will also have access to space analytics to help them make better informed decisions and optimise cost and energy usage.
Also in the session, Johnson shared Microsoft 2025 modern work strategy, which is focused on personal and secure productivity and business processes.
“We believe, in the era of AI, every individual will have a copilot that is personalised to them,” said Johnson. “It will understand them and know, for instance, the languages they prefer to speak and their job role, and it will help them with the individual tasks that they need to do to be more productive”
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