Microsoft’s WorkLab team is out with a new report on what our workplace looks like mid-2025 – and the results are ugly:
Nearly half of employees (48%) – and more than half of leaders (52%) – say their work feels chaotic and fragmented. […]
Half (50%) of all meetings take place between 9–11 am and 1–3 pm—precisely when, as research shows, many people have a natural productivity spike in their day. […]
On average, employees using Microsoft 365 are interrupted every 2 minutes by a meeting, email, or notification.
And is goes on and on… Particularly hilarious (and sad is this):
In the final 10 minutes before a meeting, PowerPoint edits spike 122% – the digital equivalent of cramming before an exam.
The report offers some positive outlook though:
The future of work won't be defined by how much drudgery we automate, but by what we choose to fundamentally reimagine. […] The most effective organizations know this—and act on it. Frontier Firms are putting the Pareto Principle into practice, focusing on the 20% of work that delivers 80% of the outcomes.
