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By the Numbers

AI Is Already Changing Work—Microsoft Included

Seven functional leaders share data and insights on what they’re learning—and how AI can help future-proof any organization.

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2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report

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Editor's Pick

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Quick Read

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Trending

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Podcast

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Generative AI

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2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report

An illustration of a butterfly emerging from a cocoon

Editor's Pick

Light refracting through a prism shaped like a Copilot sparkle

By the Numbers

AI Is Already Changing Work—Microsoft Included

Seven functional leaders share data and insights on what they’re learning—and how AI can help future-proof any organization.

 A stylized illustration showing data elements coming together and interacting with each other.

Quick Read

An illustration of athletes at the center of a playfield forming a human pyramid and collaboratively holding a giant golden trophy aloft. They are surrounded by a swirl of golden stars.

Trending

A colorful photo-illustration of Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, author and professor of psychology. 

Podcast

Sketch of a woman collaborating with AI on a PowerPoint deck 

Generative AI

Generative AI

AI will revolutionize work. Learn how

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Podcast

Timm Chiusano on AI and “Winning the Week”

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Reinvention

Learn from AI-Native Firms—or Get Left Behind

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Work Trend Index Special Report

What Can Copilot’s Earliest Users Teach Us About Generative AI at Work?

Practical Guidance

The WorkLab Guides

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AI + Field Service

How AI Can Give Field Service Technicians a Boost

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AI + Customer Service

How AI Can Empower Customer Service Agents

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AI + Sellers

How Sellers Can Use AI to Better Engage with Customers

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AI + Marketers

How Marketers Can Use AI to Unlock Breakthrough Creativity

Read the Guides

Leadership

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  1. LLMs Are Becoming a Commodity—Now What?
  2. What Can AI-Native Startups Teach the Rest of Us? A Lot
  3. How Business Leaders Are Using Copilot Right Now

Culture

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  1. 3 Proven Ways to Boost AI Usage and Make It Stick
  2. AI Data Drop: What the Future Workforce Really Cares About
  3. What New Terms Like ‘Goblin Mode’ Reveal about Work

Innovation

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  1. Anatomy of a Copilot
  2. AI’s Impact at 3 Industry-Leading Companies
  3. The Ripple Effect of AI at Work

Collaboration

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  1. When It Comes to AI, Don’t Build 'Islands of Intelligence'
  2. With Copilot, Every Meeting Is a ‘Digital Artifact’
  3. The Key Ingredient in Every Copilot Conversation

Performance

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  1. AI Data Drop: 5 Copilot Prompts to Try Out at Work
  2. Enlist AI in Your Fight Against Email Overload
  3. A Finance Exec on How AI Pays Off

Wellbeing

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  1. These 5 New Habits Will Help You Get the Most Out of AI
  2. How This ESPN Leader Works Now: A Paper Planner, Next-Gen AI, and a ‘Snow White’ Garden
  3. How I Hybrid: Meditation, the Perfect Pen, and Drawing Boundaries
In the News
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Microsoft and LinkedIn talk AI in the workplace

Jared Spataro on the future of work

How technology is transforming collaboration and innovation at work

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Harvard Business Review

How AI Can Make Us Better Leaders

Fast Company

Not quite sure what to ask Microsoft’s AI? Soon, it will offer suggestions

Forbes

The Corporate Race For Implementing AI Is Hot. Here’s How To Get Ahead

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