Artificial Intelligence (AI) is like a new team member at your organisation, ready to take on repetitive, time-consuming tasks and offer fresh, innovative solutions.
Enter Microsoft Copilot for 365, your AI-powered partner designed to collaborate with you, freeing up valuable time and enhancing productivity. With Copilot, users typically save around 1.2 hours per week, thanks to AI-driven features that streamline everyday tasks like summarising meetings, drafting emails, and creating documents, on average, making these tasks 29% faster.
At Engage Squared, we’ve spent the past year working alongside organisations to explore, deploy, and measure the impact of Copilot across Microsoft 365. The results have been remarkable. In healthcare, we’ve seen report writing times reduced by up to 50%. Recruitment professionals are seeing the benefits of automated chatbots in streamlining the hiring process, while Viva Engage has helped foster stronger connections and engagement across teams.
In just three organisations alone, Copilot has saved a combined 3,517 work hours, highlighting the power of automation and time-saving capabilities in transforming the way people work.
What does the future of work really look like with AI like Copilot? How will it shift roles, improve experiences, and unlock new opportunities across different industries? To find out, we went straight to the source, the people on our team who work with this technology day in, day out. From HR to Information Security, keep reading to discover their predictions and what they think is coming next!
Prediction 1: Rapid, just-in-time learning will become the norm for teams.
– Parul Sharma, Senior Change Consultant
Prediction 2: Copilot will transform the look and feel of roles across various industries, extending its impact far beyond the tech sector.
– Emma Green, Change Consultant
Prediction 3: Embedded AI practices will make employers more desirable.
– Georgie Yeandle, People Manager
Prediction 4: Chat bots will be everywhere, making the workplace more accessible.
Prediction 5: Security transformations are only benefiting people where organisations have moved beyond awareness, into action.
– Andrew Jolly, Principal Information Management Consultant
While these predictions offer exciting possibilities, the true impact of Copilot will depend on how we use it and how we adapt.
Hamish is an intern consultant within the Transformation & Change practice at Engage Squared. While still finding his footing in the workplace, Hamish is passionate about AI, design, and the media. He is always looking to widen his skillset by taking on new challenges to learn as much as possible. When he’s not at work, you’ll find him tinkering with Adobe Lightroom or watching the latest Formula One race.