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Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December (www.heise.de)
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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.

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Slippery slope surveillance.

    I worked at a shop where the boss was very curious when people went idle. So, if you were white-boarding a problem with a peer, you'd both get asked later where you were -- since your mouse was idle.

    It got tiring. it was one of the reasons why I left.

    But those people are out there, and they're hindering the career of people who appear idle because #goodhartsLaw, and sometimes you don't know they're doing it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    That to me seems like micromanager issue more than an issue with thr software. There are plenty of good managers and teams where they get great benefit from being able to at a glance see if you're in office that day. In every team ive worked in its expected to update your status to display where you are working.

    I'd like to not have to update my status as often and have it update automatically, save everyone a bit of hassle.

    If we think about the bad micromanager situation a bit more without this they might be less comfortable with the idea of having people work from home so giving them this info helps them keep track better which allows them to give their team the freedom to remotely work.

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