I think you’re a little naive if you don’t think this will become handy tools for management. We view its potential as two-fold from a strictly non-employee-fri

I think you’re a little naive if you don’t think this will become handy tools for management. We view its potential as two-fold from a strictly non-employee-friendly side. The monitoring abilities will be better than what is currently available. But it’s not really something a lot of organisations is going to be too interested in. Everyone already knows you’re spending a few hours each week doing internet things, maybe you’re even playing some digital board games with your coworkers. That’s fine (again, in most organisations), in good organisations you might even be able to play a little with your managers. What would be interesting isn’t the DDR type surveillance, it would be if the tools come with automatic detection for outliers. This would help you gather information on poor performers and maybe help them get better. The other potential is much more sinister. At least if the tools work out as we expect they will. In that everyone will basically be training their AI replacements. This isn’t going to kill the office job, but it’ll make the processes where we’re already putting in more and more RPA smoother and more rapid. Microsoft being who they are, they will sell these tools of course, and if they keep up with their current pricing… well… let’s just say that having a student worker move data is cheaper than most of Microsoft’s current data automation, so we’ll… As far as security goes I think this is more about complaisance than actual IT security. It’s frankly illegal to monitor employees the way these systems are intended to do in a lot of countries, and I’m not sure Microsoft really thought that true. If they roll out the current system in the EU then they are going to get a lot of attention from the big bureaucratic dragon. They probably will regardless of how they roll it out.