Many of us are now navigating a new COVID-19 response phase, moving on from “remote everything” to more sustainable, hybrid workplace, blending remote work and physical offices.

Organizations of all sizes, and across every industry, are rethinking how their people and teams communicate and collaborate. As Satya said this spring “We’ve seen two years’ worth of digital transformation in in two months.” We’ve reached an inflection point and the future of work and education is being shaped at this very moment.

During the crisis response to the pandemic, many organizations transformed rapidly to Microsoft Teams. In this time frame, we saw a massive growth in Teams usage, with more than 200 M Teams meeting participants in a single day. But this is only the beginning. In a recent survey Microsoft conducted, 82% of the managers expect that the hybrid workplace is going to stay with us for the longer term, even post pandemic.