3 of 1,443 seats waiting for a user have moved to someone who asked — $90 a month back at work.

each move verified on the next license read

Seats and people on one scale — a seat moves only toward someone who asked.

The move · rerouted, never removed

The plan is approved: 1,440 seats still to move, each as its own verified reassignment.

Take it to your meeting

The deckThe License Report as PowerPoint — one slide per question. This question as a PDFThe sheet, ready to print or save. ListenThis answer, read aloud.

Raised hand — someone who asked for a seat themselves — stored by name only because they said yes to that.

Rescue-resistant — a seat that remained ready to activate through 45 or more days of real help.

← Cover 2 · What is waiting for a user — and where? →

Question 3 · Who should have those seats instead?

3 of 1,443 seats waiting for a user have moved to someone who asked. That is $90 a month back.

How we counted this

when a seat may move · who is never named

A seat becomes reroutable only after it sat in the rescue arm for 45 or more days of genuine, warm help and remained ready to activate — the never-nudged control group is never judged this way, because it was never helped. Demand is counted from people who raised their own hand.

How the reroute protects your people. The teammate who gives up the seat is never named here — only the seat type, and the recipient (and them only if your org turned on named recognition). A leader approves a seat type moving to a person who asked for it; the ledger keeps the receipt.

So what: A reassigned seat goes to someone who asked. The same money funds their next activation wave. This page only ever moves a seat toward counted demand — someone who asked, unprompted.

You can now decide: whether to keep the plan running as it is. The target was frozen on approval, so every later read of this report measures the same promise — and each individual seat move stays a separate, verified approval.

Defined: Rescue-resistant — a seat that remained ready to activate through 45 or more days of real help, so it is a reassignment candidate rather than an activation one. Raised hand — a teammate who asked for a seat themselves; they are stored by name only because they said yes to that, and only for as long as they are waiting. Seat type — the subscription a seat belongs to, which is the only thing a leader sees about the person who gives one up.

See who is waiting, and what moves

raised hands · rescue-resistant seats

Fig 4 · Seats on one side, raised hands on the other

698 Microsoft 365 Copilot seats are ready to reroute after 45 or more days of activation support▷ Reroute

212 people have raised a hand for a Copilot seat — they asked, unprompted▷ Reroute

160 shelf seats are free to give right now — nobody gives anything up for these, so they move first$4,800 / mo

Plan running

Reassignment plan approved 12 September by a sponsor. 3 of the 1,443 seats waiting for a user frozen as its target that day have moved — $90/mo already back — and 1,440 seats worth $43,200/mo are still to go.

counted Progress advances only on a verified reassignment — an intended move is not a moved seat. The approver is recorded in your audit journal and is deliberately never printed on this page.