As part of some work, employees are asked to fill out a short questionnaire at the end of the working meeting, in which they evaluate the effectiveness of the meeting that has just taken place. Not only are these questionnaires usually very unpopular among employees, but they often have little or no informative value.
Server GeekWire has not released the information that Microsoft came up with a very distinctive design and a special AI system which appointments scored by analyzing the body language of the participants, their facial expressions, the number of participants, but even by external conditions, such as time of day, temperature, etc.
This technology could be used for personal as well as virtual meetings. Besides, based on the data collected, it would be possible to determine the probability of the most useful meeting in the future, including a specific time, place, participants, etc. Given that the system would also identify completely unnecessary meetings, the employer could, according to these results, limit company meetings to those that are effective.
In any case, GeekWire points out that this is still a patent application and it is questionable whether Microsoft will ever start implementing it at all. For example, this American software giant has not yet addressed the issue of privacy protection at all. Given that the entire system would use a combination of many cameras and sensors that detect the participants would have Microsoft reassure workers that the collected data will not be used not only by him but also the leadership of a particular company eg. as evaluation material on which release could occur on this basis.
However, these requirements are easy to promise, but they are less well met. For example, the new feature that Microsoft released at the end of October for Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Productivity Score - is also controversial. This tool is intended to inform employers about the productivity of employees who work from home. During the short period of existence yet been cleared relatively sharp criticism.
What do you think about artificial intelligence and the effectiveness of business meetings in the future?