Microsoft teams, a chat-based workspace that improves the productivity of employees and is licensed per employee, aims to displace slack, the market leader in this field. microsoft believes that teams is so much better than slack that it is offering it to organizations with an average employee expense higher than $25 per hour for no charge other than compensation for the time saved by the organization by using teams over using slack the prior year. microsoft claims that in 1 year it would be able to more than make up for the cost of service. which of the following, if it takes place, is likely to make it difficult for microsoft to recuperate the cost of teams?
a. economy going in recession forcing employers to let go of several high cost employees.
b. slack starting to research on improving its product to the extent that it almost becomes just as good as teams.
c. employers outsourcing a bunch of work currently done by the lowest cost employees, reducing the overall employee count.
d. the additional revenue that microsoft receives from increased adoption of other microsoft products integrated with teams.
e. the reduction in revenue caused by lowered reliance on a few other microsoft’s products that teams makes redundant.