When spaces have meaning and purpose, they become places. That comes from people gathering, bonding, and sharing an experience together. It's what makes a house a home — and an office worth coming into.
Today I'm excited to introduce Microsoft Places, our new connected workplace platform that will reimagine hybrid and in-person work. This platform delivers solutions that coordinate where work happens, modernize the office with intelligent technology, and optimize the workplace for changing needs.
They lay the marketing speak on thick for this announcement, but if you assume this vaporware will ship, I could be excited to use something like this. My co-workers and I tend to communicate ad-hoc and naturally choose in-person days with fewer scheduled meetings. It'd be cool to see that happen more automatically while giving management a sense of trends and insight into workplace usage. Hopefully it would also allow our facilities team to stock more Coca-Cola on busier days.