How Microsoft are Using People-Focused Tech for Business Acceleration, with Fiona Carney and Richard Gregory

<p>In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by Fiona Carney and Richard Gregory to discuss how Microsoft are using people-focused tech for business acceleration, as well as the steps you can take towards ending productivity paranoia, embracing the fact that people come in to the office for each other, and re-recruiting your employees.</p><p>Fiona Carney is the General Manager, Chief Marketing &amp; Operations Officer Western Europe at Microsoft. Known as a highly motivated &amp; energetic leader who thrives working with others, she has worked extensively leading large scale transformation programs, as well as running Operations for EMEA and Asia Pacific Microsoft business.</p><p>Richard Gregory is the Global Leader of Modern Workplace Practice at Avanade. He is the global leader of Avanade's Modern Workplace (Value Realisation) offering, helping clients to understand this changing world, how to successfully adapt, disrupt and digitally transform at pace. By transforming the digital, physical (IoT) &amp; virtual (Metaverse) workplace, together with wider workforce transformation, Richard helps organisations adapt to the Future of Work and define a new “Workplace Experience” - reducing both Capex and Opex while increasing organisational productivity.</p><p><br></p><p>👉 Subscribe to HR Leaders: http://bit.ly/2wFkCEq</p><p>🎙️ Listen on your favourite platform: https://art19.com/shows/hr-leaders-podcast</p><p>👤 Follow Chris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisraineyhr</p><p><br></p><p><strong>This episode of the HR Leaders Podcast is brought to you by our friends at HiredScore.</strong></p><p>What if we could help you say goodbye to the old HR world of disconnected tech stacks, never-ending change management, reactive processes, and complex workflows?&nbsp;</p><p>Hired Score’s talent orchestration technology, powered by AI, lets you do more with less by connecting and powering your existing and future tech stack. Download their white paper on why automation, why now, and, where HR leade