Your New Coworker Has an Email Address But No Salary

The one thing you need to know in AI today | AI Ready CMO

We’ve been fully remote since 2014, and we haven’t set foot in an office in 11 years. So when someone asks us what the modern office looks like, we’re probably the wrong person to answer. But we can tell you this: it’s about to change drastically.

Microsoft just announced “Agentic Users” for M365, rolling out later this month, and these aren’t the chatbots you’ve been ignoring in Slack. They’re AI coworkers with their own email addresses, Teams accounts, and literal spots on your org chart. They attend meetings. They edit documents. They send emails and collaborate with humans—and with each other. They’ll need their own licenses (probably called “A365,” because of course) and admin approval, but once they’re provisioned, they operate like any other team member. Except they don’t take lunch breaks.

The practical applications are obvious enough to be boring. An agent joins your weekly status meeting, takes notes, and synthesizes action items. Another handles routine client check-ins or dr…