It seems to be a number that the masses are willing to just accept without any reasoning.
If they said 30% people might start to ask how, if they said 5% people might just shrug and think it's not significant.
A lot of people are probably just repeating a number that is big enough to impress management but not so big it sounds far fetched. Otherwise evaluating Copilot should be no different from evaluating any other tool claiming to improve productivity. How would you evaluate Excel vs. pen and paper? Self reporting, estimating time saved per action or common scenario, counting how many actions are taken per day, etc.
Yes, but you have to move the printing head yourself. /s
If you want to convince someone of something, you can’t go wrong with 20%.
I don't see 20% in any of MS' marketing material. The claim 6 hours saved weekly for a team of 5, so 2.5%. They claim 29% quicker on "completing everyday tasks", but specifics range from 74% faster (summarizing a meeting) down.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/meet-copil...
digging through emails ?
Some of us have work to do. /s
maybe laying off 20% of the teams/ICs?
We have seen them happening while the profits are growing.