. In fact, over the last three years, people have attended 192 percent more Microsoft Teams meetings and calls per week compared to pre-pandemic times, the company
So, that begs the question: What happens if we all decide to skip our calls and send in the bots instead? Google claims a meeting won’t work if everyone recruits their AI assistant, The Verge. But it isn’t guaranteed that people won’t think of clever hacks to skirt calls—creating digital “clones” of ourselves isn’t out of the question, Amany Elbanna, a professor in information systems and digital transformation at Royal Holloway University of London, told The Daily Beast.
They also offer a discreet way to ask questions we may feel embarrassed by, Amany Elbanna of Royal Holloway University of London said. While we may fear some eye rolls when asking our boss to repeat a certain pointStill, it’s easy to imagine meetings turning into bot-dominated spaces and eventually disappearing altogether—but that doesn’t seem to be the intention from companies like Microsoft .
to avoid office conflict, like preventing people from asking about the “mood” of a certain meeting or whether someone was particularly unhelpful during a call.