How often have we heard this, and how many times has anything truly changed?
Meetings are now longer than ever before, and there are growing concerns around their actual usefulness and impact on employee productivity. Research suggests that an average employee will attend around 62 meetings a month, making it difficult to track each meeting’s results and outcomes. Frequently, prep before the meeting and gathering/collating ideas afterwards take up the majority of your time.
Microsoft aims to address all of this with its smart new upgrade to Teams Meetings: automated recaps.
How Teams Meetings Recap Could be a Game-Changer
Despite attending a meeting in person or virtually, a lot of us need written confirmation of what was discussed – making the meeting referenceable, part of our documentation. This is particularly true for external meetings, where you are discussing a variety of different elements with a guest/client. As a result, the meeting host or a designated stakeholder must collate all the meeting highlights into an easily sharable format. This could include:
- The meeting recording (both audio and video)
- Any files shared during the meeting
- A full transcript for accessibility and later reference
- Any links or notes shared via chat
- A summary of the discussion
What if you could have all of this generated automatically the moment a meeting comes to an end? That’s exactly what the new Teams Meetings recap feature tries to achieve.
Microsoft positions this as an enabler for productivity in the “new world of work,” suggesting that virtual meetings are now central to our WFH experience. As travel restrictions continue to be in-place, digital will remain the default, making automated recap extremely relevant.
Key Features We Are Looking Forward To
The Teams Meetings Recap content will show up the details tab of the meeting on your calendar. A link to the content will also be shared automatically via the meeting’s chat window. Interestingly, you don’t need to attend the meeting to view recaps – invited members who were unable to attend can quickly catch up through this content, accessible on their calendar.
The feature functions as a dashboard display:
