Microsoft looks to bots to make employees more productive ZDNet

Microsoft is working on multiple chat bots it's counting on to make employees more productive. The company announced two years ago its Calendar.help The company also is working on another conversational bot, named "SwitchBot," that's designed to improve workers' focus. Information about SwitchBot was made public in the form of a research paper published on April 21 for the 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. SwitchBot is a Skype bot that aims to help workers detach and then reengage at the start and end of their workdays.