Microsoft Teams Adds Button That Ends Meeting Once Everyone Has Lied Enough
The button detects phrases like "circling back" and "great alignment" until the room has done all it can do.
Microsoft Teams has added a button that ends a meeting once everyone has lied enough, sparing workers from the final 18 minutes of saying there is alignment where there is only furniture.
The button appears after detecting repeated phrases like "circle back," "strong next step," and "I can own that," especially when spoken by people whose cameras reveal they are reading other messages.
"Meetings contain natural endpoints," said collaboration product lead Grant Pomeroy. "Sometimes the endpoint is an agenda item. Sometimes it is the moment a director says 'we are all excited' and three analysts look down at once."
When clicked, the button closes the call, sends a transcript to nobody, and replaces the calendar block with a 12-minute recovery period called Stare At Wall.
Microsoft said enterprise customers can disable the feature if their business model depends on nobody naming what just happened.
