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