Let's talk about the office during hybrid work times

I prepared for You the summary of the most important news, announcements and articles about Microsoft 365 from the last week. Enjoy!

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Introducing Microsoft Places: Turn your spaces into places

Hybrid work promises us the best of all worlds. The ease and comfort of working from home, the connection and energy of engaging with our coworkers in the office, and the flexibility and opportunity of working where we want. But today, there are still challenges preventing this promise from becoming a reality.

The best Halloween Teams backgrounds

Microsoft Teams allows setting Halloween themes in the background during meetings.

I gathered 50 free, spooky images you can use as a Halloween background on Microsoft Teams calls.

Sharing how Microsoft protects against ransomware

This is why Microsoft is driving new priorities to protect our company, our people, and our customers. We launched our Ransomware Elimination Program (REP)—a multi-stakeholder effort built upon Zero Trust—to better understand our risk profile and deploy additional controls, processes, and practices to improve resiliency against intrusion.

This allowed us to weave our many different ransomware systems and processes into a single agile framework that we use to holistically guard against attacks.

It’s made a big difference for us—we’re now better able to analyze our systems, understand capabilities, and innovate on some of the solutions we rely on to stay safe.

Manage your team’s workloads with the new People view!

The new People view is now available for all Project users with a Project Plan 1 license and above!

Within People view, you can configure the new "View options" dialog on the header. For example, you can choose to show effort completed, remaining, and late in hours on the people cards, or choose to disable "Compact mode" to show all information on task cards just like in the Board view.

Transform your frontline workforce with a single secure platform

Today, this massive challenge is also a massive opportunity for organizations to see the benefits of digitizing their frontline workforce – in fact, frontline workers state that improved technology at work is among their top three stress reducers (Work Tend Index Special Report, 2022).?When frontline workers are digitized, companies often see a decrease in work related stress. This reduction in stress leads to increased productivity, better employee satisfaction and ultimately, the ability to attract and retain top talent. We see customers like London-based fashion brand River Island transform their frontline workforce by providing them with Microsoft Teams, which has improved their productivity and customer service through seamless communication and efficient processes.

How LinkedIn Redesigned Its HQ for Hybrid Work

We’re now in the next chapter of the great pandemic-instigated work experiment. According to Gallup, more than half of people who can work remotely expect or prefer to do so at least part of the time from now on. For their organizations the goal is clear: Make hybrid work more viable and sustainable.

As an employee of LinkedIn and consultant at NBBJ, respectively, we’re always trying to better understand workplace trends and support both our employees and our user base in navigating them. Most recently, we’ve put new thinking on hybrid work to the test in designing LinkedIn’s 250,000 square foot global headquarters, called B1, on the existing 29-acre campus in Silicon Valley.

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Szymon