{"id":15038,"date":"2019-05-06T17:06:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T17:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/microsoft-wants-you-to-work-less.html"},"modified":"2019-05-06T17:06:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T17:06:36","slug":"microsoft-wants-you-to-work-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/microsoft-wants-you-to-work-less.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft wants you to work less"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft <\/a> today announced updates to its MyAnalytics platform and a new Outlook feature that are meant to help you work less, find more time to focus on the work that actually matters and, by extension, get more downtime.<\/p>\n

Until now, for example, MyAnalytics<\/a>, Microsoft\u2019s tool for helping employees track their productivity, would provide you with a measure of how much time you spent working after hours. That\u2019s not necessarily a healthy number to track. Going forward, MyAnalytics will track the number of days you managed to unplug after work and didn\u2019t check your email or work on a document at 8pm (something Microsoft\u2019s own PR department could learn from given that it has a tendency to provide essential press materials for next-day embargoes at 6:30pm). The idea here, obviously, is to get employees to focus on this number instead of how much they work when they are off the clock.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur customers often tell us they spend all day in meetings with little time to focus on pressing tasks and projects,\u201d Microsoft communications chief Frank X. Shaw also noted in a press briefing ahead of today\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n

To combat this, the company today launched a few new features that will let you set up regular \u201cfocus time.\u201d The first of this is a tool that lets you set up focus time each week, as well as a feature in Microsoft teams that will alert your fellow employees when you are trying to get things done.<\/p>\n

Because your colleagues often don\u2019t care about your flow, though, and are prone to scheduling yet another unnecessary meeting during those times, Microsoft is also launching a new AI-powered Outlook plugin that will help you rebook your focus time and find times for focusing on specific to-do items.<\/p>\n

In the future, the company also plans to introduce well-being, networking and collaboration plans.<\/p>\n

Focus plans will become available in preview in the next few months for Microsoft 365 and Office 365 users, with E5 customers<\/a> getting them first.<\/p>\n

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