[MUSIC]
Thanks for joining us.
I'm Brad Smith Microsoft's president.
And today is an important day for all of us who
work at Microsoft.
Today we're launching a global initiative to bring
digital skills to 25 million people around the
world by the end of this year.
This work has been months in the making but with
COVID-19, a huge economic recession.
We think that this kind of work is needed now more
than ever.
Now typically we would have a live event.
We'd have people in the audience to launch this
type of thing.
But of course we're living in a different time.
So come on in and I'll show you how we're gonna do
this.
Today we're at Microsoft Studios.
It's a building on our Redmond campus that has
sound stages broadcast facilities, control rooms.
This is where we do a lot of work as a company for
live and recorded events.
Today there's not as many people here as there
might be on most days.
We're working with a skeleton crew.
Everybody's socially distanced except for me
everybody's wearing a mask because I'm on camera.
But the main thing is what we want to share.
We think that the world needs new steps to help
people get back to work to find new jobs and do it
all safely.
So let's get started.
Come on in and join me in the control room as we
get this kicked off.
This is where our team is producing the events
including Rick and John who you see here and what
better way to kick all of this off than to turn to
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Satya thanks to Charlotte and thanks for that
- Thanks Brad and welcome.
Before we start, I want to address a topic
that is front and center
for us as a society;
racial injustice, and inequity.
There's absolutely no place for hate,
bias or racism in our world.
The cracks of injustice
and inequity in our society
hinder progress for everyone
and call on us to act.
Last week, we announced a
multi-year sustained approach
to address racial injustice,
focused on our culture at Microsoft,
our ecosystem and our communities.
Change begins by looking inward.
It's what our employees, customers
and partners expect from us
and what the world demands.
We are committed to doing our part
and acting with intention.
Today. I want to focus on
another source of inequity
and what we are doing about it.
COVID-19 has created both a public health
as well as an economic crisis.
As we move from the initial
emergency response phase
to the recovery phase
to the re-imagine phase,
determining what should be rebuilt,
what should be redefined,
we need to ensure that
no one is left behind
and address the needs of those
most impacted by this crisis.
For us, this starts with
reflecting on the role
of a corporation to create
profitable solutions
to the problems of people and planet.
At Microsoft we're focused
on empowering every person,
including the more than 1
billion people with disabilities,
every worker, knowledge
workers, firstline workers,
every business, small or large,
every industry from agriculture to retail,
every community, rural or urban,
every country developed or developing.
Everywhere we look, we see
relentless ingenuity and drive.
People are contributing in new ways,
in essential roles, which
have been overlooked
and undervalued to keep our
society and economy functioning
amidst this pandemic.
And during this time of change,
people are hungry to learn,
gain new skills and grow
their economic opportunity.
It's been forecasted 800 million people
need to learn new skills
for their jobs by 2030.
COVID-19 has made the
skills gap even more acute.
It's exacerbating economic inequity,
people of color, people
with disabilities, women,
early in career workers,
and those who have
less formal education
are bearing the brunt
of this unemployment crisis.
For those who still have jobs,
it's changing not only how they
work but what they work on.
Every job will increasingly
require digital skills.
In the next five years, nearly 149 million
new tech jobs will be created
in fields like software development,
cybersecurity and machine learning.
Talent is everywhere but
the opportunity is not.
Over and over again,
we see that when people
have access to education and skilling,
they create new economic
opportunity for themselves
as well as their communities.
Take Tiara Phillips a phone
support worker in Chicago
after being laid off,
her first concern was
providing for her two children.
She trained as a Cloud support specialist
knowledgeable in Microsoft Sequel
and is now employed full-time.
- Having those tech skills,
I am better prepared to go into any field
or any job that I decide to.
- Take Diana Cohn, a visual artist
and a mother in Pasadena, California.
After hearing loss, she
needed an accessible tool
to learn new skills.
With LinkedIn Learning courses,
she was able to start and
grow her own design business.
- I never thought a busy mom like me
could switch careers
so quickly, but I did.
- And Yacine Souki in Paris, France,
who after the death of his father
had to provide for his family.
After enrolling in our AI school,
he found a new career as a data scientist.
- To me, it's exciting to learn every day,
new things, new technologies,
and I'm like a newborn.
- As a platform and tools company,
our identity is rooted
in empowering people
like Tiara, Diana and Yacine.
And over the last few
months in particular,
we have seen people around the world
turn to our platforms to learn new skills.
We create technology so that others
can create more technology.
And our partner ecosystem
employs more than
17 million people doing just that.
Microsoft Learn helps
anyone obtain certifications
in our technology and
the usage was up 475%
in the month of May
compared to a year ago.
LinkedIn is the world's
largest professional network.
With LinkedIn Learning, anyone can access
more than 16,000 online courses
from how to manage
compassionately to basic Python.
In May alone, people watched
382% more hours of content
than they did a year ago
and GitHub is the home to more
than 50 million developers.
GitHub's Learning Lab
provides hands on tutorials
for both aspiring as well
as experienced developers.
In May, usage was up 900% year over year
but we know we can and must do more.
That's why we are bringing
together these assets
to reimagine how people
learn and apply new skills
to help 25 million people
who have lost their jobs
due to COVID-19, acquire digital skills
for jobs of the future.
There are three pillars to our approach.
First, we've used data from
the LinkedIn economic graph,
which is a digital representation
of the global economy,
to identify the ten most in-demand jobs
like IT technician, data analyst
and customer service specialist.
And we are launching free learning content
from across Microsoft, inclusive
of LinkedIn and GitHub,
for these roles which anyone can access
in multiple languages.
Second, we will match people's
skills to the right jobs.
We are providing access
to low cost certification
and free job seeking tools.
And we are partnering with nonprofits
to provide additional support
for those who need it most,
including people with lower
income and people of color.
And third, acquiring
new skills doesn't stop
when someone gets a job.
Just like every company today
has a system of engagement with CRM
or a system of record with ERP,
they'll require a system of learning,
creating a continuous feedback loop
between the work, skills
and learning required
to succeed at the task at hand
and the credentials to
accelerate career advancement.
A new Microsoft Teams app
will help organizations
skill and upskill employees
surfacing learning content in the context
of their day to day work.
By applying our
technologies and partnering
across the private and public sectors,
we believe we can make progress
in closing the skills gap.
The novelist, Doris Lessing
once defined learning
as being able to understand something
you've understood all your
life, but in a new way.
It's this inherent
capability within all of us
that we want to unleash
so collectively we can build
a better future for everyone.
And with that, I'll hand it over to Brad.
Thank you very much.
- Thanks Satya.
Anytime we launch an initiative like this,
we always ask ourselves
a critical question,
what's the problem we're trying to solve?
Well, in some cases, it's obvious.
Look around the world today
and what we see, is more people
out of work since any time
in the Great Depression in the 1930s.
In fact, we estimate that in 2020,
before this year comes to an end,
we'll see almost a quarter
of a billion people
lose their job.
It's a staggering number.
In part, it's the obvious
reaction to this pandemic,
a pandemic that is unique in our lifetime,
but it's about more than that as well.
It's also the result of
long-term trends in our economy,
trends that have been unleashing
more automation, automation
that has been eliminating jobs
that often involve more manual work
and replacing them with jobs
that are more digitally-focused.
Think about all of the jobs around us.
Everywhere you look, you see the jobs
are becoming more digital.
Think about the work
of a graphic designer.
What used to happen on
a piece of paper, now,
is displayed on a computer screen.
Think about people in the healthcare area.
Think about the explosion
in telehealth just over
the last few months.
That, we think,
is never going to go back
to the way it was before.
Think about what it takes to
work on a manufacturing floor
in the world today.
Manufacturers are digital workers.
And think about the life of a teacher.
Think about how dependent teachers
have become on digital
skills and digital tools.
Even when kids are back in the classroom,
we can expect more reliance
on digital technology to continue.
That's why we estimate, as a company,
that by the middle of this
decade in the year 2025,
we'll see the creation of 149
million new technology jobs.
In many ways, these will be jobs
that involve the creation of software,
but they involve a whole
lot more than that.
It includes people who
will be working with data,
people who will be
protecting cyber security,
people who will be
protecting privacy as well.
Everywhere, in every company,
on every continent, even
in government itself,
we'll see the need for
people with new skills.
But there's another problem
that we have to help solve.
If you look back over the last 20 years,
employer investments in employee training
have been declining.
They first fell from the
late 1990s to the year 2010.
And then in the decade
that we just finished,
we really experienced
a decade of stagnation,
stagnating employer investments
in employee training.
So, fundamentally this
asks us to ask ourselves,
how do we turn this around?
How do we help people develop the skills
they'll need to succeed
in the years ahead?
It calls on a principled approach
and that's what we've
been doing as a company.
We've grounded our work,
not just this initiative
that we're launching today,
but beyond, in six principles.
It really starts by putting data
and digital technology to work
to help people develop new skills.
The data can help us learn
what skills people need
and the technology can
help people acquire them.
But it takes more than that.
We're focused on a broad set of skills,
not just digital skills alone.
In part, we need to help people
develop the skills to ensure
that technology is used responsibly,
that it's applied ethically,
that it's deployed in a manner
that protects people's privacy.
And we need to help people develop
the softer, so-called, success skills
that are essential for a world
where people need to work with each other
and it's all about the success of a team.
We need to couple that by
asking employers to do more.
Employers around the world
will need to invest more
in the training of their people.
As an employer, that starts
with Microsoft itself
and you'll see us take new
steps in the months ahead.
But more than that, we think
our biggest contribution
is in creating tools and technology
that can help employers do
more for their employees
and do it more seamlessly,
more effectively,
more efficiently than they can today.
All of this requires partnership.
And so, as part of this initiative,
we're leaning on partners in a big way.
A huge aspect of this
is stronger partnerships
with nonprofits in the United States,
and around the world
and a spirit of partnership to work with
and support governments as well.
Finally, this is an initiative
that is pulling together
every part of our company.
It starts with LinkedIn,
which is really the heart
and soul of this work,
but it combines LinkedIn's
efforts with Microsoft Learn,
and with GitHub, and
the GitHub Learning Lab,
and ultimately, it's about
all of us working together
in a new and important way.
That's why, what you'll see here today
is a multi-faceted approach
to this initiative.
It's an initiative that starts with data
to identify the jobs that are in demand
and the skills that are needed for them.
It builds on that, by providing people
with access to learning,
learning content, free of charge
and then it builds on that
second piece with this third.
Access to low cost, subsidized
tests, and certifications,
and free job-seeking tools
so people can close the loop
and find the job
that they'll need for a
more successful future.
To walk us through all of these pieces,
I'm delighted to turn this
over to Ryan Roslansky,
the new CEO at LinkedIn.
Ryan.
- Thanks, Brad.
Hi, I'm Ryan Rolansky
and I'm the CEO of LinkedIn.
I couldn't be more
honored to be here today
to talk about our goal
to bring digital skills
to 25 million people.
We're committed to helping
those who have lost their job
due to the COVID-19 pandemic
get the new skills they
need to land their next job.
And the Microsoft ecosystem
is uniquely positioned
to help people connect opportunity.
But finding opportunity isn't just about
searching for a job.
As Brad mentioned,
job seekers and the government
agencies who support them
need the access to the data
to help identify where
employment opportunities exist,
the accessible tools
to effectively develop relevant skills,
and the ability to
demonstrate those skills
to organizations who are hiring.
In order to achieve our ambitious goal,
we've created one place
for people to go to.
Opportunity.linkedin.com.
We've built this site by
tapping into resources
across the Microsoft ecosystem
from LinkedIn and LinkedIn Learning
to Microsoft Learn to GitHub Labs.
And we start this process
by navigating the uncertainties
objectively as possible
with insight into
real-time skilling trends.
And for that, we turn to LinkedIn.
You may know LinkedIn as
that app on your phone
with your professional
identity and community.
But behind those profiles,
companies, and connections
is a real-time digital representation
of the professional world,
iving us insight into workforce
trends and skills demand.
By digitally mapping over
690 million professionals,
50 million companies,
11 million job listings,
36,000 skills
and 90,000 schools on LinkedIn
we're able to spot trends
like in-demand skills, emerging jobs
and global hiring patterns.
We call this the economic graph.
These insights help us
connect LinkedIn members
to open opportunities.
And we're excited to begin offering
some of our labor market insights
to policymakers and the public
to help understand what jobs and skills
are in demand per region.
This labor market insights tool
includes data on what
companies are hiring,
the top jobs companies are hiring for,
and the skills needed for those jobs.
The data is available and downloadable
for more than 180 countries and regions,
and you can access this tool
at opportunity.linkedin.com.
For example, the data shows us
that a remote everything world
has shined a light on the importance of
both digital skills and soft skills.
We've seen an increase in
the need for digital skills
and it's being accelerated
by the pandemic.
Since March, web and video
conferencing skills are up 525%.
And Microsoft Teams as a skill is up 500%.
Professionals are hungry to learn
the latest ways to stay in
touch with their colleagues,
even while physically apart.
On the soft skills front,
we've seen the skills of collaboration
and people management accelerate.
Given the complex and
challenging work situations
that many of us are facing,
it's no surprise that employers
are looking for professionals
to help them lead through change
by sharpening critical soft skills.
And also, as we work towards
a more equitable future,
professionals are more than ever
investing in their own learning
to understand and confront bias,
communicate about topics of difference,
and show up as allies
to build a more inclusive
workplace and society.
Based on this data and these trends,
we're making for learning
paths from LinkedIn Learning
available for free.
LinkedIn Learning is our
broad base skilling platform
with more than 16,000 video-based courses
across business, technology,
and creative topics.
All taught by industry leading experts.
First, we have the digital
fluency learning path.
We're making it easy to
learn video conferencing
and Microsoft Teams among other skills.
Then we have the critical
soft skills learning path
with content that helps improve
communication and
collaboration among teams.
Next, we have a diversity,
inclusion, and belonging path
that also touches on some of those
critical skills of communicating
and understanding bias
that help create inclusive
work environments.
And, finally, we have a job
seeking best practices path
to help job seekers
prepare for roles in the digital economy
and manage their job seeking
process more effectively.
These learning paths are
now available for free.
The economic graph also
gives us visibility
into jobs that are most
in-demand globally.
By looking at jobs that
have the greatest number of openings,
have had steady growth
over the past four years,
pay a livable wage,
and require skills that
can be learned online
we've identified 10 jobs
that are accessible to
those seeking employment,
giving individuals and governments
a compass for where to begin.
Today we're also making
10 LinkedIn Learning Paths
aligned with these roles
available for free.
For example, check out
the graphic designer path.
Each learning path includes
a sequence of video content
aimed at helping
individuals broadly develop
the core skills needed for any given role.
These learning paths are available
in English, French, Spanish, and German.
Given the rise in demand for skills,
for digital skills especially,
and for roles that are
more technical in nature,
we have Microsoft Learn that combines
short step-by-step training
with interactive coding and scripting
to help learners go deep
on Microsoft technologies.
Microsoft Learn content
also helps learners prepare
for Microsoft certifications
so they can gain industry
recognition for their skills.
Through the end of the year,
we're significantly discounting the exams
for these certifications
for those impacted by COVID-19.
And we'll also enable job
seekers pursuing developer roles
to access the GitHub Learning Lab
to practice their skills.
GitHub Learning Lab is a
bot-based learning tool
that uses a repository to teach
technology, coding, Git, and GitHub
via real life demo-based modules.
This means that as job seekers
engage in learning paths,
they'll have the opportunity
to practice newly acquired skills
by completing realistic projects
in a personalized GitHub repository.
And using our free tools to learn
is the most important part.
But once you've learned those skills,
we've made it simple for you to add them
to your LinkedIn profile.
This will help you be
found by the millions
of recruiters and hiring managers
who are searching for talent on LinkedIn.
And speaking of being found,
I'm very excited we've
launched our new feature
called open to work.
It harnesses the power
of the LinkedIn community
to help the large unemployed population
that Brad talked about be found for work.
Take Daisy, who's a LinkedIn member.
She was just laid off her job
as a customer success manager.
She's discovered a way on LinkedIn
to indicate to the community
that she's looking for work.
And once Daisy has this on her profile,
a green circle appears to let her network
know how to help her.
Daisy can also proactively
share with her network,
and people can click to
see what she's looking for
and message her to offer support.
And when job seekers get to
that critical interview phase,
we want to help them
demonstrate their skills
through effective interviewing.
So we're offering free
interview prep tools,
including a newly launched feature
leveraging Microsoft AI
for real-time feedback on your answers.
Take Michael, a job seeker
who can now record a video
of himself practicing an interview.
Then in real-time,
he can get feedback on things like
his speech patterns,
the filler words he uses,
and some tips to improve his answers.
I am honored and excited to
be part of this initiative,
and will continue to focus
our team on those we can help.
By working together
and helping those whose
jobs have been impacted
by the COVID-19 economic crisis,
we can make a difference right now
in the workforce, in the economy,
and in our everyday lives.
And there's no better
way to bring to light
the power reskilling can have on the world
than with this video
from one of our learners.
- I have always been a visual artist.
I was thinking of pivoting my career
as the world around me
became more digital.
I wanted a way to learn
that with accessible,
since I have hearing loss.
That's when a friend
recommended LinkedIn Learning.
I immediately started taking courses.
And with these skills,
I was able to start a business venture
that I'm really passionate about.
I never thought a busy mom like me
could switch careers so quickly,
but I did thanks to LinkedIn Learning.
(light music)
- To learn more about
any of these features
we just talked about,
visit opportunity.linkedin.com.
And now, Brad, back over to you.
- Thanks Ryan.
As important as each of those pieces is,
one of the things we recognize
is that reaching 25 million people
is not something that any
company can do by itself.
That's why we're also
including another big piece
of today's initiative.
It involves expanded
partnerships with non-profits
around the world, non-profits
that will do critical work
to work personally with individuals,
oftentimes individuals that
may need the help the most.
They'll provide mentoring and counseling
and other teaching and assistance.
We're putting $20 million of cash grants
to reach non-profits in
countries all around the world.
- Our work with nonprofits
isn't just about numbers and countries.
Fundamentally, it's about people.
And I think the best
way to understand this
is to join the conversation
we're having with two people.
First, I want to invite Trevor Noah
to join the conversation.
Trevor, we've been so
fortunate to work with you
these past couple of years
on a lot of nonprofit work.
And one of the great things
has been your own nonprofit.
The Trevor Noah Foundation,
I was with you two years
ago in Johannesburg,
when you launched that
at the New Nation School.
Share just for a moment, some
of the work that you're doing
to provide skills to the
next generation of people.
Well, I will say Brad,
it's, it's been an amazing
journey for me because,
we met organically in a
conversation around technology
and what it meant in my life.
We met talking about my
life, my book and Microsoft
in the journey that I had lived.
On the campus with you.
And a few years later,
we were in South Africa,
not just giving kids the tools
that they need physically
to connect to a digital world.
But we also gave them
the tools that they need
to actually understand the digital world.
And I think that's always
been my biggest passion
is connecting people with the
information that they need
and the skills that they need
to actually use the tools
that then keep them in the
jobs that they then acquire.
And I think that's
oftentimes been the issue.
I've always been a fan of
metaphors and analogies,
as you know. And I always
say to people that-
people would be like teach
man to fish and I go,
yes, but you've also got to
give him the fishing rod.
And so I think combining
those two elements together
has really been important to me.
And that's why I've loved
the journey with Microsoft
is you guys helped us
bring the fishing rods
and then you taught
the people how to fish.
And we've been able to use
that to make fishers of men
every single day.
And that's been beautiful to
see in kids in South Africa,
seeing young children start off their life
with all the tools that they need
to have the best opportunity to succeed.
- [Brad] Well, What a great
segue to the next person.
I want to introduce you to.
Linda Eddleman, meet Linda.
She's the CEO of Trust For the Americas.
We've been working with
her group for years
across Latin America,
across the Caribbean.
Wanted to give the two
of you an opportunity
to talk a little bit
about how the nonprofits
are gonna play such an
essential role in all of this.
- Well, thank you so much, Brad.
And thanks for the
opportunity to participate
in this filming today.
And thanks to Microsoft,
we're celebrating our 15-year anniversary
of working together with
you to impact people
in the hemisphere.
- Wow. That's really amazing.
Linda, I've had the opportunity
just in knowing Brad
to learn a little bit
about your organization,
but I'm always fascinated to understand
the whys and the hows that
bring people together.
And I wanted to know
from your perspective,
why do you think it's
so important for people
to have the digital skills
in this world today?
It seems like an easy answer,
but some would say why,
why do you think this is one
of the most important courses
out there?
- I think it's because jobs are changing
and the jobs are consolidating
and jobs are disappearing
because of technological innovation.
And we've seen with Corona virus
and the economic crisis that has ensued,
that the trend is only accelerating.
And many of the jobs
that have disappeared,
at least in my country,
in the United States,
they've disappeared.
And many of them may not come back.
But I do think that
there's a silver lining
in this situation for the worker,
which is that there are
lots of jobs still unfilled
in the hemisphere.
Which is the part of the world
that I have experience working in.
And there is a mismatch between
jobs that are available,
these jobs that are going unfilled
and the skills that workers have
and what would be found at
the Trust For the Americas.
If you can work with people
and give them the skills
they need for the jobs that exist.
We get to a very happy
place where jobs are filled
and people are working and
generating income for themselves
and their families.
- You've worked with Microsoft now for,
I think, 15 years,
- [Linda] Yeah
- Which is a really long relationship,
more than most people's
relationships, really.
(Linda laughing)
The question is why do you
think that that relationship
has lasted so long? What do
you think it is about the trust
and about Microsoft that
has put the two together
that has just turned
into a perfect synergy?
What is it about that
combination that works so well?
- I think that Microsoft is
willing to take a chance on us.
In 2004, the trust was still
sort of in startup mode.
And our big project that was given to us
by the department of labor
was coming to an end.
It was a program to use
hardware and software
to provide skills to
people who'd been disabled
in the war in El Salvador.
And when that project ended,
we wanted to take this
expertise and grow it
and make it available to people
throughout the hemisphere.
And Microsoft took a chance
on us and gave us funding
to start two information
and technology centers
in Guatemala.
And that program has now
just expanded more than
we could've ever hoped.
We now have 225 labs and centers
across the hemisphere.
- [Trevor] Wow!
- I think we're in 14 countries
and we've impacted lots and
lots of people together,
I think close to 2 million people
with our Microsoft support.
But if I had to say the
most important thing
about our relationship with Microsoft,
beyond the financial support
which of course we need to do our work,
really is the capacity
building they've given us.
We've grown up together with Microsoft.
They've given us skills to
learn how to be a business.
And we've been able to
pass along those skills
to the local partners with which we work.
And I think we all do a better
job because of that training.
- It's a relationship that
you always have to work on,
it's a relationship that you always renew.
It's clear why you work together
and it's easy to see why
Microsoft is in for this journey.
What I'd love to know is
what the future holds,
because you you've just
reaffirmed your commitment,
both Microsoft and the trust have said,
Hey, we're working together
and we want to do more in the future.
The question is, what do
you hope the future holds?
What are you now trying to
do beyond those 2 million
that you've impacted? Or what
are you trying to improve?
- Well, what we're trying
to do together really is
to focus at least at the
trust, all of our efforts
in promoting the future
of work and innovation,
because what we see in the hemisphere
is that there are very
high unemployment rates.
The situation is getting
worse with Corona virus
and unless people are prepared
for the jobs of the future
and have the skills to
start small businesses,
then the vulnerable populations,
which is the group of
people with which we work,
are going to be left out of the equation.
We see in my country
here, the social unrest,
that results from a crisis of equity.
People really need to be included.
And that's our mission,
social and economic
inclusion for the vulnerable.
- Wow.
- And if I could just add,
we've found that technology
has really been a great equalizer.
It levels the playing field
and people are able to get jobs
and to improve their lives
and start small businesses.
And that really has a profound impact.
We found at the trust that
the most important way
that we could help promote
social and economic inclusion
was to give people the skills
so they could generate income
and by generating income,
they could help themselves,
help their families.
And that brings about profound change.
- It definitely has.
And, I look to organizations like yours.
Brad has been kind enough to
point me in that direction
to places and spaces where
I've met some of the most
amazing people doing fantastic
things. And once again, Brad
has knocked out the park by
introducing you to me.
So thank you very much for that,
I'm honestly honored to meet you Linda.
And I can't wait to see
what additional work
the organization is gonna be doing.
Well, I hope that you can come
and visit one of our centers.
- Definitely,
- I'd love to show you around.
- I would love to.
- And I'd love to
have lots of stories that I could tell you
about the people who I've
met and some of the lives
we've impacted, really. We
talk about the statistics
and the statistics are important
because it gives you a
context for the impact,
but really it's all about
the impact you can have on one person
and how that person will
go on to impact others.
And, that's what it's all about.
- Definitely. Hopefully the
airports will be open, if not,
Brad will loan me his HoloLens
(Brad laughing)
and I'll use that
to virtually come visit you.
- That would be terrific.
- Absolutely.
- We'd love to see you
- And I'll look forward
to visiting as well.
So thank you. Thanks to both of you.
Thanks for your time today,
Linda. Thanks as always Trevor.
- Thank you very much.
- Okay. Bye bye.
- Bye.
As you can see, the work
we're doing with nonprofits
is really global in scope.
But in addition to that global work,
we recognize that we have
a heightened responsibility
to work with nonprofits
here in the United States.
To provide help and financial support
to nonprofits that are
led by people of color
and serve communities of color.
That's what we're doing.
We're dedicating $5 million
of our $20 million total
of cash grants to provide
assistance to these groups.
We base this in part
on not just what we're all
thinking about and reading about
and seeing in the news,
but by what data is telling us as well.
What we've seen this year
is that job losses in the United States
have been hitting the
hardest, in so many ways,
the people who can bear it the least.
We're seeing higher job losses
for people with lower income.
We're seeing higher unemployment
rates for people of color.
And we're seeing the same
phenomenon with respect to women,
as more women have been
losing their jobs than men.
So we feel we have a
special responsibility
to serve women of color,
to serve people of color.
We'll couple that work with nonprofits
with current and future
committed long term efforts
to use our voice as a company
on public policy issues.
And we're prioritizing
three issues in particular.
This has to start, we think,
with new government support
and more governmental innovation
to invest in individuals,
to create more skilling
opportunities for individuals.
It then should be coupled in our view
with new government
incentives for employers.
Especially as governments
consider stimulus packages.
This is the time when governments
can change that trajectory
that we've been living with for 20 years
by providing employers with tax credits
and other financial incentives
to enable employers,
perhaps most especially small
employers, small businesses.
So they too can invest in the training
and new opportunities for their people.
And finally, there is an
opportunity for governments
to put data and innovation to work
by opening up public data sets
and to innovate in
government workforce training
and the like.
All of these ways, governments
have such an important role
to play in building a better future.
And that brings us back
to what we'll do as well.
We see ongoing technology innovation
as playing a fundamental
role, not just this year,
but every year in the decade
ahead to support every part
of what nonprofits, governments,
employers and individuals
all need to do.
That's why we're taking a page
out of what has worked well
for us in the sustainability space.
We're focused in 2020 on
three skilling sprints.
The first of these is what
we're launching today.
It will be followed by a second
that will launch this fall.
A sprint that is focused
on providing new technology
and tools to employers.
And that in turn will
be followed by a third,
a third sprint that will
focus on what we're doing
for students.
But let me give you a
bit of a sneak preview
of what you'll see more of this fall.
The new technology and teams
that we're going to make
available to employers
around the world.
Let me invite Charlotte
Yarconi from Microsoft,
the Corporate Vice President,
who's leading this work.
Charlotte.
- Thanks, Brad.
As people have shifted to remote work,
customers increasingly have
turned to collaboration
and learning tools.
Usage of Microsoft and LinkedIn products
has increased significantly,
in the last few months,
and companies need to ensure
their workforces remain
productive, agile, and competitive,
in a challenging global economy.
While customers have told
us they value skilling,
they've also shared how
challenging it can be
to create successful corporate
learning environments.
There are a couple of
themes we often hear.
First, employers know
they need to train and retrain employees
to do current and new jobs well,
but many companies struggle to connect
learning to business impact,
making it hard to justify
continued investments in learning.
Engagement is also a big challenge.
Proactive engagement and
learning at work tends to be low,
and many employees don't
have enough time or incentive
to learn at work.
There's also low cultural
emphasis placed on learning,
with research showing
that only 1/3 of employees
have leadership teams
encouraging them to learn.
At Microsoft, our goal
is to empower employees
to grow in their roles and their careers,
which helps businesses thrive.
We'll accomplish this by bringing learning
into the natural flow
of work for employees,
instead of a separate
task in their busy day.
This means making it easier
for employees, managers, and teams
to collaborate, discover,
and track their learning,
with the tools they already use.
All levels of employees are
already using Microsoft Teams
for chatting, meeting, collaborating,
and streamlining business processes.
Now, we're adding learning.
Later this year, we will preview
a new learning app in Microsoft Teams,
that integrates world-class
content from LinkedIn Learning,
Microsoft Learn,
a customer's own content,
and other content providers,
all in one place.
The content will range
from formalized instructor-led
trainings to microlearning,
which allows you to gain
skills by role or technology,
in bite-sized and interactive ways.
The app will make it easier for employees
to find and access
relevant training content,
wherever they are,
allowing them to have
conversations around that content,
and earn certifications and
recognition for their skills.
It will also empower managers
to assign and track learning progress,
all while using Teams:
a familiar tool they use every day.
From new employees, to
managers, to firstline workers,
The Learning App in
Teams will make it easier
for employees to learn while they work.
We're working hard to
create this experience,
and I'm excited to share an early preview
of how this will come to life.
Let's take a look.
- [Narrator] Around the world,
employees use Microsoft Teams
as their hub for teamwork.
Now, we're extending
Teams to include learning,
enabling employees to learn,
within the flow of their work.
Let's see how learning
comes to life in Teams.
The Learning App in Teams makes it easy
to discover and share
trainings and courses.
Raj just joined the team.
As he gets started, he opens Teams,
and sees a welcome message
from his manager, Julia,
along with a reply from a team member,
suggesting he check out
the Our Trainings tab.
In Our Trainings, the team has curated
all of the trainings helpful
to a new team member,
including technical trainings
for Microsoft Learn,
courses from LinkedIn Learning,
and company-owned learning content,
all available in one easy to access place.
Raj needs to decide which
training to take first.
He's able to see how many
people at the company
have viewed and liked each course.
He selects a training,
and opens it in Teams,
where he can start the training,
catch up on the latest conversation,
and join the discussion.
When Raj completes the training,
he moves right back into the
flow of his work in Teams.
Managers facilitate the
discovery of learning resources
and foster discussion, so that
peer learning can flourish.
To enable that, managers need tools
to assign and track trainings.
In her Activity feed,
Julia sees a LinkedIn Learning video,
posted by MJ, a fellow team leader.
She clicks on the training,
and sees more details,
along with Like and Assign options.
She thinks the training
will be beneficial,
and decides to ask two
of her teams to take it.
Without leaving Teams,
she can easily assign the
course to individuals or groups.
Back in the Manage tab,
Julia can see all of
the learning materials
she's assigned to different
teams and individuals,
as well as their completion status.
The Learning App in Teams
makes it easy to find and
access microlearning content,
helping employees complete
tasks efficiently.
Richard is a firstline
worker who has a question,
while working in a remote cell tower.
He taps on a group chat in the Teams app,
and posts his question.
His colleague, Olivia, sees his question,
and remembers watching a
relevant training, last week.
She quickly searches for
it in the Learning App,
finds it, and sends it to Richard.
Richard views the training,
and is able to complete
it, right from his phone.
He receives credit for
finishing the training,
and earns a certification
card, verifying his new skill,
which he is easily able to
add to his LinkedIn profile.
At every level of your organization,
the Learning App in Microsoft Teams,
with LinkedIn Learning
and Microsoft Learn,
makes learning content
more easily discoverable,
and facilitates social learning,
right within the flow of work.
Satya thanks to Charlotte and thanks for that
video.
I think that gives you a good sense of what to
expect in the months ahead.
In so many ways this is an important day and an
important launch but it's a whole lot more than
that as well.
It's a new beginning across Microsoft as we bring
together the best of LinkedIn and get hub and the
other parts of the company.
It's a new beginning as we focus on waves of
technology innovation the kind of innovation that
will create what Satya described at the outset a
system of learning that will serve employees and
individuals and employers as well as we focus on
the future.
We know that we need to not only innovate in terms
of new technology but forge and strengthen new
partnerships partnerships with nonprofits and
governments around the world.
We all have the opportunity to fill new jobs and
create new chances for success for people
everywhere.
That's what we're determined to do.
If we work together well we can turn a year that
had a bleak beginning into a decade that has a
bright finish.
We look forward to working with all of you.
Thanks for tuning it.
