Before I turned it on I asked my team if they had any objections. Silence for eight seconds before saying if anyone was uncomfortable objecting in the group they could reach out to me individually. No one ever did. The only request was that everyone internal get copied on the notes so they could correct them if needed.
These are company decisions to have these connectors and privacy choices. It's their data and their risk. There has never been an illusion that anything said, written, or done at work is private from the company. At home I partake in none of this.
Did you check with internal counsel?
> There has never been an illusion that anything said, written, or done at work is private from the company
The entire industry is one court case away from banning transcription. Not many companies want every word of every meeting legally discoverable - in the past, meetings were used to avoid having a written record. The implications of ubiquitous transcriptions haven't percolated yet, I give 1-3 years (or until the next major case)
I don't have the authority to make the meaningful decisions, just to do my job efficiently.
Casual meetings can have misconstrued words.
Even better if it's a feedback session or people have notes and comments. You can have them all mock-implemented before you even send out the summary.
I’ve got over a decade of work experience now and I have like 100 notebooks filled with notes from nearly every day. I routinely find that my own notes differ from auto written transcripts of meetings. Mostly it’s minor things, but every once in a while the automatic transcription gets something critically wrong.
You can ask someone to turn it off.
Even then, it's easy enough now to have a second device capture the audio, like a phone as well. Being able to reflect on meeting notes is such a powerful valuable thing for people, you can assume they are almost certainly going to be doing it.
We already have products that provide active countermeasures against recording devices, an audio jammer of sorts that renders microphones unable to pick up anything. I wonder how effective they are.
Might be a German/European thing though...
I'm not even kidding. An individual has no protection, if it's workplace policy you can be fired for not following it.
If employees collectively challenge the policy an employer can not legally retaliate against collective action.
I'm not even talking about a "we didn't computers in my day and we did just fine" old-man-yells-at-cloud objection here; there is no real benefit, wrt recording a meeting, that "AI" brings to the table.
author a study that truthfully demonstrates an increased productivity, and by extension, reduction of costs, that appears in the absence of surveilance.
perhaps an ABC test of production under obvious surveillance, obvious lack of surveillance, and advisement of incidental surveilance at any time. this should be cross sectional and longitudinal, perhaps an exit survey to categorize the different productivity groups, such as we took longer because we knew we would have to work at a desk under a camera when we were done; vs the we could do it faster because, we knew we wouldnt be nagged about ergonimics, kinefficiency, or surruptitious movements.