Specifically, Teams will detect if the user has connected to the company’s own Wi-Fi and automatically set the work location accordingly to the respective building.
Implementing useless features and fixing nothing since 1975.
I mean, it’s a useful feature… But only if you have a good company culture.
if you have a good company culture you don’t use teams
Which is as probable as winning the lottery.
They exist, but people don’t leave them once there, so new jobs don’t come up as often.
I’d argue they evaporte more and more every year as companies are acquired or if they get a new CEO that’s all about cutting costs blindly without any regard for quality or quality of life.
Not many left.
Yes, I worked at one of those pre-covid. I remember my colleague leaving her laptop and work phone on her desk at the end of the day around 4pm. We also had small offices with 2-4 people in a historical building right in the city center.
Then we merged with a bigger company, their culture ate us, and all the best people left, the rest are sitting in an open office at the edge of the city. Funny enough, I worked on the merger as one of the leads, I was so happy getting an oportunity like that while young. Now looking back I realized that it was a bad thing we have done (not that we had a choice), and the end result is worse for employees, customers, and even shareholders.
I have an awesome job. But its probably because of the union.
I mean… Is it really spying? Your company can detect which AP or Switch you’re connected to (or if you’re using a VPN from home), so they do have that data anyways.
There’s a huge difference between a piece of data being recorded in a SIEM somewhere and the data being displayed up front all of the time for micro managers to pounce on.
It’s just like ai photo generation. Yes it could always be done with photoshop/checking network logs but making it easier for more people/managers to see encourages more bad behavior and micromanagement.
if they bother setting it up
yes
All it does it checks in which location/building you are. While moderately intrusive I cannot really see a straightforward relation to home working - surely people don’t pretend to be in the office when they are working from home?
Situation may be different if you wish to go longer term abroad without informing your employer who thinks you are still in the country, just working remotely. But I can see it as a potential legal issue anyway.
Those are all thing that can be controlled by the direct lead on any well run company.
I know from my own work that some mediocre middle managers wanted a rigid technological enforcement of the hybrid work framework and are probably dreaming about rolling out a “feature” like this.
just wait till you learn about how accurate hot desking software is.
Jesus Christ, if you didn’t think your company knew if you were in one building or another before today, you’re a fucking idiot.
Fun fact, you can use most of teams through
teams.microsoft.comDo yourself and your coworkers a favor and minimize how often Teams is running. If anyone asks just say the desktop version was buggy - no one who has used teams will deny it.
Teams is so slow and is missing so many quality of life features.
There’s a whole bunch of ways to do that already. This isn’t really new
Not for the average spineless middle manager. This puts the data in their hands without having to get any approval from anyone in IT
The manager should know if you are at home or in the office. I cant think of a reason why that information would be out of the ordinary.
This seems like surveillance disguised as a mostly useless feature. If you are in the office and logging into a video call, you’re probably using the hardware in a conference room and not your own laptop. That hardware will already display the room you are calling from to everyone on the call.
The only reason for this feature is to tattle on people who aren’t where they say they are.
Just keep moving the Wifi APs for maximum chaos and open bug reports to Mircosoft since location service is unreliable.
So if I’m reading this right, won’t a VPN totally fuck with the system? Cause its a nessessity for some to get into local networking.
Teams isn’t the program actively spying on people (yet), that’s Viva engage.
I guess the only part of this that is remarkable is that they are doing it with Teams.
Just create a wifi mirroring the one you use at work at home, done.
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I feel like they would at least do it by the interface MAC address.
Yeah, I was also thinking that cloning the Gateway or AP MAC address would help obscure what we’re doing 🤣
Why are we pretending like someone working hybrid needs to hide their office status during work hours? Its not a privacy issue for your work to know where you are while you’re working for them.
Plus there is already a ton of ways your employer gets this data its not like any new ground is being broken here.
I dont get the outrage with this one NGL.
the only people in uproar about this are the same people who use those auto mouse pads or whatever they are called.
