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\u201cFocus on being productive instead of being busy,\u201d advises Tim Ferriss, author of several bestselling books, including The 4-Hour Workweek<\/em>.<\/p>\n Whilst most of us can only dream of a four-hour work week, the imminent release of Microsoft 365 Copilot (1st<\/sup> November 2023) may help us all take that giant leap towards being more productive.<\/p>\n This will probably pique the curiosity of The Apprentice Academy\u2019s Data Analyst and Data Technician apprentices first, but every single apprentice and office worker should sit up and take notice, especially where new ways of reducing the time pressures of work and study are involved. And in an increasingly competitive work environment, being competent in the use of this technology will arguably be vital for career capability and future success.<\/p>\n We thought, therefore, that a brief overview of this launch would be useful.<\/p>\n In a nutshell, it is an AI personal assistant integrated into the Microsoft 365 suite \u2013 Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook\u2026<\/p>\n If you have been stranded on a desert island for a while and haven\u2019t yet had a look at ChatGPT or any of the other guises of generative AI, the real magic is that this assistant understands natural language prompts. This means that you can command your assistant as if you were having a conversation with another human being.<\/p>\nWhat is Microsoft 365 Copilot?<\/h2>\n