I was only saying I was worried it might become mandatory in the future.

But I’m pretty certain my employer will establish a corporate account with Microsoft for Copilot whereby my employer’s employees get the premium Copilot “features” (I use the term loosely) by logging in to Copilot using their employee credentials through some SSO integration between the two companies. And then Microsoft will probably provide usage data on a per-employee basis to my employer.

My employer has a setup almost exactly like this with at least one other SaaS provider. The one I’m thinking of isn’t an LLM provider like Copilot. But my employer has made it clear that a) they’re monitoring usage by employees and b) usage (to the tune of a certain number of hours per week) is mandatory.