Thank you Microsoft, just what I always wanted. Hard to believe this is real.

Actual Ad Link: https://www.instagram.com/microsoft365/p/C7j8ipnxIiI/?img_index=1

 

Awesome article about the ad which sums it up nicely:

https://justinpot.com/watch-me-be-in-three-meetings-at-once/

Three meetings at once. It’s so funny that, when I saw people making fun of it, I assumed it was a meme or an Onion parody. Nope: Microsoft really did run this as an ad on Instagram. This is what they think we want from their supposedly world-changing technology: the ability to attend more meetings.

Now, Copilot’s ability to transcribe a meeting and highlight the key points is cool, and in theory it could make meetings more efficient. It’s easy to imagine, in a healthy work culture, where that gain in time allows people to spend more time doing the actually productive parts of their job.

Instead this ad assumes the opposite will happen. It imagines a future where we use our efficiency gains to attend more meetings. Economists sometimes talk about how the current crop of technology hasn’t lead to commensurate productivity gains—it’s a bit of a mystery in some circles. I would hold up this ad as the explanation: we are all, as a society, using the efficiency gains to attend more pointless meetings.

Evehn ,
@Evehn@sh.itjust.works avatar

This is not what they think we want. This is what the KNOW companies wants, as they'll be their primary revenue from massive contracts.

Crampon ,

and in theory it could make meetings more efficient.

How about making an agenda for the meeting, sticking to the agenda, and sending out a copy of the proceedings to every attendant and other who need it?

If you have a meeting without these things it's not a meeting. Its a gathering of people talking about vaguely similar interests.

Fixing the meeting culture is easier than inventing technology to decoy bad leadership.

LiveLM ,

Not even the lady in the ad looks happy about this lol

menas ,

We were afraid of totally extermination by AI. Reality is worst and boring, as usual

AeonFelis ,

AI will be used to conduct three meetings at the same time. Employees will still be expected to personally attend all of them.

FuryMaker ,

I dunno, I kinda like this one.

I keep getting roped into 30-60 minute long meetings, where what was discussed could have been summarised into a few points.

What I don't like, is that the content is stored/processed outside of a corporate network.

angelmountain ,

I need OBS on the new work-macbook to fix issues with the weird colors of my webcam, but the added benefit was that I can now use it to record myself "listening to what's being said" for the first 2 minutes of the meeting which I then replay on a loop for the rest of the meeting, while I'm making coffee and eating breakfast. Works great so far.

FuryMaker ,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj0p7s-y7_Q

then_three_more ,

I keep getting roped into 30-60 minute long meetings, where what was discussed could have been summarised into a few points

Which is what people would want, just get an email summary of the meeting if you don't actually need to be there. The ad is saying you'd still need to go anyway and now because you're not expected to pay so much attention you can be booked into two more at the same time.

Rather than just getting 3 email summaries.

octopus_ink OP ,

Remember, you've already got the generation of folks who watched the transition to computers that were supposed to make their lives "easier" become instead "you are expected to do far more with your workday because we made it easier for you."

Right now it looks like "wow it will lighten my workload" but what it will look like in the end is "now we can expect more productivity per the same unit time from our workers."

I'd love to be wrong, but 1% gonna 1%.

ultratiem ,
@ultratiem@lemmy.ca avatar

It shows just how fundamentally out of touch MS is with, well, everything.

cabron_offsets ,

Sup dawg

sirico ,
@sirico@feddit.uk avatar

Meeting for the meetings meeting

CrowAirbrush ,

Yo dawg, i heard you like meetings.

solsangraal ,

it's not an ad for you. it's an ad for your bosses

octopus_ink OP ,

That really doesn't lessen my horror.

solsangraal ,

it was never about making anything better for you. no one's talking about the fact that all these employers are demanding RTO while also increasing VIRTUAL meetings

octopus_ink OP ,

it was never about making anything better for you.

And that's why it's posted here.

ZC3rr0r ,

As someone familiar with Microsoft's meeting culture, this is pretty accurate. If you want to attend every meeting in the day, you will be in three meetings at once. At a minimum.

S13Ni ,

I don't want to be even in one meeting at a time without camera on.

xantoxis ,

It's easier to understand this through the lens of the bosses who actually buy this technology. They're only in meetings. They kind of assume that's what their workers do, too. They want their workers in more meetings; if that's all you're doing, it sounds like being productive.

The workers aren't buying copilot, and the people who are buying it find this somewhat convincing.

suction ,

Matches my experience in bigger companies.
People who have a “mostly meetings and PowerPoint” job think that sitting in meetings is real productive work.
They assume anyone who sits in front of a computer but not in a meeting is probably not busy enough and their job could be outsourced to India.

Krauerking , (edited )

We just aren't all seeing that it's worth it to rip all the material out of the planet. Craft it a great expense into complex machines and burn our very ancestors for fuel.

So that a speech to text bot that takes imagined assumptions at exponentially more power can write an email that could be done by a person who could also do more complex tasks or hell even fetch a coffee.

Tech bros just trying to figure out why it's a good thing to get rid of people they just don't like from being around them and make it seem like a good thing. And I say that as someone that likes tech and often doesn't like people.

This is so stupid.

Hikermick ,

She looks thrilled

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