New Future of Work Report 2025

Authors: Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Rebecca Janssen, Nancy Baym, Jake Hofman, Brent Hecht, Sean Rintel, Bahar Sarrafzadeh, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Jaime Teevan, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Daniel G. Goldstein, Mary L. Gray, Javier Hernandez, Eric Horvitz, Nicole Immorlica, Kori Inkpen, Shamsi Iqbal, Siân Lindley, Brendan Lucier, Mercy Muchai, Alexandra Olteanu, Jacki O'Neill, Christian Poelitz, Nathalie Henry Riche, Advait Sarkar, Sunayana Sitaram, John Tang, Lev Tankelevitch, Kiran Tomlinson, Adam D. Troy, Gaurav Verma, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn, Rebecca, Janßen
Venue: MSR-TR-2025-58
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Abstract

Note from Chief Scientist and editor Jaime Teevan:As you sit down to read the 2025 New Future of Work report, it’s worth pausing to consider the thread that ties the past five years of reports together. Theinaugural New Future of Work report(opens in new tab), published in 2021, focused on new ways people could work without relying on colocation as a key productivity tool.The second, in 2022(opens in new tab), centered on the reintroduction of physical offices and the emergence of hybrid work.In 2023(opens in new tab), we explored how large language models could reshape everyday work, and,in 2024(opens in new tab), how those advances moved from promise to real‑world impact.

Citation

Note from Chief Scientist and editor Jaime Teevan:As you sit down to read the 2025 New Future of Work report, it’s worth pausing to consider the thread that ties the past five years of reports together. Theinaugural New Future of Work report(opens in new tab), published in 2021, focused on new ways people could work without relying on colocation as a key productivity tool.The second, in 2022(opens in new tab), centered on the reintroduction of physical offices and the emergence of hybrid work.In 2023(opens in new tab), we explored how large language models could reshape everyday work, and,in 2024(opens in new tab), how those advances moved from promise to real‑world impact.

BibTeX

@techreport{butler2025new,
author = {Butler, Jenna and Jaffe, Sonia and Janssen, Rebecca and Baym, Nancy and Hofman, Jake and Hecht, Brent and Rintel, Sean and Sarrafzadeh, Bahar and Sellen, Abigail and Vorvoreanu, Mihaela and Teevan, Jaime and Alsobay, Mohammed and Ankrah, Liz and Beers, Stephanie and Benzing, Megan and Bruch, Mia and Buçinca, Zana and Carpanelli, Mar and Cole, Amelia and Counts, Scott and Daepp, Madeleine and Edwards, Justin and Farach, Alex and Goldstein, Daniel G. and Gray, Mary L. and Hernandez, Javier and Horvitz, Eric and Immorlica, Nicole and Inkpen, Kori and Iqbal, Shamsi and Jagadeesh, Manasa and Lindley, Siân and Lucier, Brendan and Muchai, Mercy and Nand, Ambrita and Olteanu, Alexandra and O'Neill, Jacki and Peterschmidt, Max and Poelitz, Christian and Rabeeza,  and Henry Riche, Nathalie and Sarkar, Advait and Sitaram, Sunayana and Snellinger, Amanda and Suh, Jina and Tang, John and Tankelevitch, Lev and Tomlinson, Kiran and Trapasso, Anne and Troy, Adam D. and Verma, Gaurav and Williams, Jack and Zorn, Ben and Young, Jordana},
title = {New Future of Work Report 2025},
institution = {Microsoft},
year = {2025},
month = {December},
url = {https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/new-future-of-work-report-2025/},
number = {MSR-TR-2025-58},
}

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