Christopher Flathmann News Today

Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastEver since video calls infiltrated our work lives in 2020, employers have lassoed us into more and more online meetings (many of which probably could’ve been emails). 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 reported in May.Now, tech giants like Microsoft and Google say they have a solution to the very meeting malaise th...

Big Tech companies are launching new tools to make work calls easier—but with privacy issues and rogue bots, they could end up causing more harm than good.