When REI reconsidered plans to move to a large, new campus, employees embraced a hybrid work strategy. For the 15,000 employees at the company, moving to Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams not only provided them with more flexible work options, but also allowed them to embrace their core values of protecting and engaging with nature. […]
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Forbes: Employees want flexibility and an inclusive culture
As organizations around the world make the definitive shift from remote to hybrid work, one thing is clear, employees want autonomy of when and where work gets done, and they are willing to go to great lengths to obtain it. With features like AI-powered active speaker tracking, multiple video streams, and people recognition, Microsoft Teams […]
Great Expectations: Making Hybrid Work, Work
The way in which employees approach work has forever been changed. According to The 2022 Work Trend Index, the modern worker values flexibility, personal well-being, and a healthy work-life balance. Modern talent also wants to know their job has meaning and purpose, as indicated by a dramatic shift in their “worth-it” equation. Organizations that embrace […]
The Virtual Hallway
The greatest challenge that leaders face in the new hybrid work reality is the loss of meaningful in-person connection. Can Microsoft Teams provide the digital equivalent of the “hallway” conversation? According to the Microsoft 2022 Work Trend Index, “Unscheduled, ad hoc calls have risen 8% in the past two years and now make up 64% […]
Kent State – Connecting Beyond the Boundaries of the Classroom
The highly interactive technologies embedded in Microsoft Teams make virtual connections more natural, engaging, and ultimately, more human. By providing one central location where brainstorming, meeting, calling, and instruction happens, work can be streamlined allowing more time for connection and innovation. Learn how Kent State University is using Microsoft Teams to help students and faculty […]
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Old English tæcan (past tense tæhte, past participle tæht) “to show, point out, declare, demonstrate,” also “to give instruction, train, assign, direct; warn; persuade,” from Proto-Germanic *taikijan “to show” (source also of Old High German zihan, German zeihen “to accuse,” Gothic ga-teihan “to announce”), from PIE root *deik- “to show, point out.” Related to Old […]
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