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id: "entity-microsoft-d53"
type: "entity"
entityType: "organization"
canonicalName: "Microsoft"
aliases: []
source_timestamps: ["§ How to Ensure AI Doesn’t Weaken Human Connections"]
tags: ["organization", "research", "collaboration-analytics"]
related: ["action-monitor-social-impact"]
sources: ["adoption"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-adoption"
originDay: 9
articleStem: "hbr-sig-53-ai-personal-support-risky"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/05/employees-are-relying-on-ai-for-personal-support-thats-risky"
sourceTitle: "Employees Are Relying on AI for Personal Support. That’s Risky."
---
# Microsoft

**Profile:** Global technology company (microsoft.com); publisher of the WorkLab / Work Trend Index research.

**Role in this source:** Cited for a research approach in which **machine learning analyzed anonymized emails, meetings, and Teams chats** to unearth collaboration patterns — serving as a model for monitoring the social impact of AI.

**Relevance in this vault:** Real-world exemplar for the action [[action-monitor-social-impact]] (measure #1 of [[framework-five-measures-human-connection]]).

**Enrichment context:** Microsoft's Work Trend Index also documents "anxiety around AI at work" that varies by trust in leadership, and frames AI copilots as partners that free humans for relationship-based work — a nuance that appears in the vault's counter-perspectives.


## Related across articles
- [[entity-microsoft-d36]]