{"id":129474,"date":"2022-11-04T16:04:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=447596"},"modified":"2022-11-04T16:04:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:04:36","slug":"digital-now-video-workers-around-the-world-are-asking-why-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/04\/digital-now-video-workers-around-the-world-are-asking-why-the-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Now video: Workers around the world are asking, \u2018Why the office?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/digital-now-video-workers-around-the-world-are-asking-why-the-office.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>In this episode of \u201cDigital Now,\u201d Jared Spataro, corporate vice president of Modern Work at Microsoft, explains that employees now prioritize their health and wellbeing over their work, and expect greater flexibility in how, when and where they work.<\/p>\n<p>Spataro also explains why we shouldn\u2019t fear the metaverse, discusses how technology can support a company\u2019s vision of what work looks like, and shares why companies who were open-minded about hybrid work fared the best.<\/p>\n<p>Organizations who had the roughest time in responding to the pandemic, he says, were those who set inflexible policies based on what they <em>thought<\/em> would happen. \u201cNever put yourself in front of the Mack truck that is a pandemic or the labor market or some big force that you\u2019re not going to be able to control,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s best to be flexible and kind of be in learn-it-all mode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDigital Now\u201d is a video series hosted by Andrew Wilson, chief digital officer at Microsoft, who invites friends and industry leaders inside and outside of Microsoft to share how they are tackling digital and business transformation, and explores themes like the future of work, security, artificial intelligence, and the democratization of code and data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLeNd0KyIiRNmz-3bpIjtxOqlvjvgOeZMR\"><em>Visit Digital Now on YouTube to view more episodes<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of \u201cDigital Now,\u201d Jared Spataro, corporate vice president of Modern Work at Microsoft, explains that employees now prioritize their health and wellbeing over their work, and expect greater flexibility in how, when and where they work. Spataro also explains why we shouldn\u2019t fear the metaverse, discusses how technology can support a company\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1403,50],"class_list":["post-129474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-news","tag-digital-now","tag-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}