Inside Microsoft, a powerful new AI executive is shaking up some of the company's most important businesses
Source: Business Insider ·
Microsoft's head of the Copilot platform, AI agents, and now Office is making good on his promise to reshape how his teams work.
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Microsoft executive Charles Lamanna.MicrosoftCharles Lamanna, head of Copilot, Agents, and Platform, just took over Office and Teams.Teams within his new combined unit have adopted flatter structures amid the rise of AI agents.He's also enforced a stricter RTO for senior staff, and offered employees relocation to major hubs.Microsoft's head of the Copilot platform, AI agents, and now Office is making good on his promise to reshape how his teams work."The most important thing my team will do this year won't be any single product or feature we ship: instead, it will be changing how we work," Charles Lamanna, the new boss of this key Microsoft unit, wrote in August.Lamanna has started requiring senior staff to work in offices four days a week, and he's offering relocation to major hubs, according to people familiar with the changes. Teams within his organization have also reorganized to a flatter structure removing middle managers in line with Lamanna's views about how agentic AI is…