so Microsoft introduced something at ignite 2022 they actually really excited me on a much sort of
deeper level I thought that Microsoft places was something that was really really interesting and I
want to talk about it in today's video give you a bit of an Insight on what is included in Microsoft
places and sort of the future of productivity in terms of hybrid and remote and how this might be
that bridging Gap so for those who don't know Microsoft introduced places places is a new way
to solve the problem between hybrid and remote working making sure to take advantage of what
resources you have available and sort of keeping a schedule in place so that people don't necessarily
work from home all the time or work from the office all the time maximizing productivity
and time so let me give you a brief overview of it you can find an article about it in the link
in description from Microsoft from the ignite 2022 announcement so it's very simply Microsoft
places is focused on helping you to create a schedule around hybrid work so for example
it can give you a week ahead of your routine and give you not just a sort of outline of what your
week will look like based on external factors like managers and other people like for example could
say you're working four days in the office but one day at home but what it does is it connects
with the actual offices and the buildings which means that you can see not just who's going to
be in but the capacity people in the building and the space available this is such an interesting
technology especially when it comes to taking advantage of office space and actually using
an office to its full ability so for example this sort of Technology could not only help businesses
to work out where people are and what they're doing in terms of whether they're remote or
whether they're in the office but it can also tell you okay we're spending too much money on this
building that's only being used once a week could this potentially be mapped to somewhere else and
could we allocate everyone in on these certain days which is in really interesting technology
that can be analyzed and improved over time and I think that's really insane from a business
perspective especially when you're thinking as a big picture okay if we adapt three or four things
that don't annoy everyone can we improve that way of working for everyone and I also like how
they're trying to solve the issue of people coming into the office that think they're all everyone's
working from the office that day and then they're all working at home and the concept is to have
this hybrid scheduling so you can take advantage of who's where and when so that you can actually
collaborate in the best formats and also what I like there's so much stuff I like about this the
ability to find out who's in certain collaboration rooms booking meetings and moving the furniture to
best suit the room for collaboration is a really really interesting technology for me and also you
can tell I'm slightly excited about Microsoft spaces I probably will never use it because of
the way that we we don't have a big enough team for it to work but it really interests
me for that aspect now the one thing that really really excited me was the actual ability to see
if you were set to leave the commute times I think one of the biggest problems right now is
like people assume that you need to be at work at like 9am obviously it's very very helpful but for
example let's say you left at 8am you hit traffic for 45 minutes but you left 20 minutes after that
like hey I don't and maybe a little bit later 8 45 you would see a reduction of 20 minutes of traffic
and that has a dramatic improvements to how much energy you come to when you arrive to the office
and how much time you actually spend doing it so for example conceptually the Microsoft app
might say if you head now you can get back in for 34 minutes it looks like it's going
to present you with an ability to see okay this is a traffic sources but it's recommending that
if you leave it this time you're actually going to save 20 minutes so work a little bit in the
morning and then commute in at this time because the traffic's considerably better I love that so
much the ability to add understand your community in a much better fashion in terms of the time
allocation is insane and I think that's something that really isn't talked about enough and I I'm
interested to see how the hybrid communication will improve if that makes sense in terms of a
personal productivity work day now they also do have an ability inside of the schedule to see
sort of like your team's outlines but also like a suggested office day so if they're seeing like
over 70 capacity like you might as well come into the office this day because everyone's
going to be in that is suitable for your work and then obviously you know suggest remote days at
the same time too based on the least amount of people that have been in the office too so I'm
really excited for Microsoft places it'd be really interesting to see where and how it's going to be
rolled out I know that they've got a fair few Partners in the plans and I've um it only still
states that it'll be available in my in in 2023 but for me this is so big that I think it would
it's a pain that not everyone's going to get this if you know I mean like everyone should get their
hands on a technology like this because I think it's a real game changer in terms of hybrid and
remote work so folks hopefully you found this video helpful maybe it was just me ranting about
Microsoft places and how much I like it but I hope you enjoyed today's video and found it useful if
it's something a technology that you're interested in for sure thank you very much folks and I look
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