Overview

• Microsoft's 2025 Work Trend Index declares this year as the birth of the 'Frontier Firm,' integrating AI deeply into business operations.
• The Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 release introduces an Agent Store, reasoning agents like Researcher and Analyst, AI-powered enterprise search, and Copilot Notebooks.
• The 'Frontier Firm' concept envisions hybrid teams of humans and AI agents, with a new role called 'agent boss' to manage AI colleagues.
• Microsoft's report outlines a three-phase AI adoption model: assistants, digital colleagues, and autonomous workflows under human oversight.
• The initiative is supported by data from 31,000 workers, LinkedIn trends, and trillions of Microsoft 365 signals, emphasizing AI's role in closing workforce capacity gaps.