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Microsoft wants to know what you're getting up to in your 5-to-9 after your 9-to-5.
The company is seeking to patent a method of "tracking sources of after-hours activity" in communication apps. Microsoft's system relies on a log that stores information about the timing, receiver, and sender of an "event" -- anything from meetings, emails, calls, and tasks assigned on a deadline -- sent on a communication platform during a defined after-hours work period. The system then cross-references these events with organizational data, such as department, title or location.
Source Fool.com