Hugh Milward, General Manager, Three Million New Technology Jobs Over the Next Corporate Affairs at Microsoft UK
UK impact overview Social, environmental and economic impact of Microsoft in the UK With viable vaccines being rolled out and ever better In doing so, we must also ensure we build a society where we should increase our investments. I’m proud treatment protocols, we are learning to not just live that embraces diversity in all its forms, expands that it also celebrates a small sample of the great with the disease, but to suppress it. A return to a our own pool of talent and welcomes it from work that is already being done such as Get On 2021, more normal life is on the horizon and we will move, around the world. a new campaign which aims to help 1.5 million however haltingly, into the ‘recover’ and ‘reimagine’ people build tech careers in the next 5 years, no phases of the pandemic. As we do, Microsoft is At Microsoft, we often ask ourselves what is our matter what industry. working side by side with its customers and partners broader role, how do we best fulfil our mission to Foreword to reinvigorate the UK economy, rebuild confidence help every person and every organisation on the Whilst it is certain that technology will continue and continue driving the digital transformation that planet to achieve more? Of course, a large part of to define the decade to come, the real question will secure a prosperous future for the UK. delivering on that mission is in creating the products perhaps is how can we make its beneficial impacts and services that allow creators and innovators much more broadly felt? The hard challenges we We should not, however, let ourselves be persuaded here in the UK to build successful businesses, that face demand innovative solutions, but they must be that getting back to ‘business as usual’ post COVID-19 can tackle the hardest challenges.
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