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Here’s an article online for Inc Magazine — which I generally despise — from yesterday about how “Microsoft explained with one simple word what’s happening with the future of work” and blah blah blah. The article is essentially about managing uncertainty vs. certainty in your employees, or, phrased another way, “Talking openly about life vs. work, life and work, and the Delta variant.”
Instead, the article veers into this territory eventually:
My conversation with Spataro focused on Viva, Microsoft’s effort to build an employee experience platform that brings together — in one place — all of the tools an employee needs to manage their relationship with their employer. Specifically, we talked about the company’s introduction of a mobile app that allows your team to access the information they need wherever they are working — something that seems important if hybrid work is here to stay.
Typical tech industry bullshit here — some guy, with a massive ego due to title and salary and how far he’s come from being the weird nerd in high school — decides that, instead of managers actually having real, human conversations with the people they manage, we’re going to put everything in a platform, call it “employee experience,” spin out a mobile app, and sell it to executives who don’t give a shit about people issues as is. Microsoft will…
