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More than a decade ago, Microsoft recognized changes in the way its products and services were developed and the need for the workplace to support a more agile and collaborative work style. New insights led to a substantial change in the company’s office design, modernizing offices across the globe, while embarking on an ambitious 3-million-square-foot redevelopment project at its Redmond, Washington, headquarters that will shape the lives and work of its associates for decades to come.

The redevelopment now underway replaces legacy buildings primarily featuring closed offices with new team-based workspaces supported by technology to enhance the work experience. Retaining only a small portion of the original Microsoft campus, the new design incorporates the needs of the workforce today, to address the way work is evolving. Collaboration and creativity will create a new, refreshed, energized experience at Microsoft, with workplaces designed to support smaller development and project teams.

The new spaces at Microsoft are designed to spark innovation and creativity, taking collaboration to new heights, leveraging digital capabilities to harmonize lives in and around work. No surprise, of course, that Microsoft is employing its extensive digital and cloud technologies acumen to make work and workplaces effective and easy to traverse, occupy, configure, and engage. Workplace apps will enable employees to reserve workspaces; personalize their workdays, work groups, and spaces; and seamlessly access transit and rideshare applications. Easy access to health and wellness data and amenities will afford employees time and resources for rejuvenation and recharging. Wayfinding tools will help guests and employees efficiently locate spaces and people for interactions. As the Microsoft ecosystem fuels the brain, apps will help employees fuel their bodies with easy access to food, exercise, yoga, and light-filled spaces.

Microsoft is using its own Microsoft Azure platform to manage a portion of the buildings at its headquarters campus and at locations around the world. Incorporating Azure Digital Twins technology, facility managers can digitally model physical space layers, with real-time data anonymization, to learn about the spaces people are using and how they are using them, informing data-driven space planning and allocation. The Azure platform also ensures that buildings operate efficiently to minimize energy and waste, and optimize indoor air quality.