Implementing useless features and fixing nothing since 1975.

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.

I mean, it's a useful feature.... But only if you have a good company culture.

Fun fact, you can use most of teams through teams.microsoft.com

Do 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.

Luckily this kind of data is illegal to use in Norway

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.

Teams is so slow and is missing so many quality of life features.

Teams isn't the program actively spying on people (yet), that's Viva engage.

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.

Just keep moving the Wifi APs for maximum chaos and open bug reports to Mircosoft since location service is unreliable.

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.

I guess the only part of this that is remarkable is that they are doing it with Teams.

There's a whole bunch of ways to do that already. This isn't really new

The fact that Cisco has been able to triangulate your phone's wifi mac position in 2d space for a decade is unrelated. It's how protesters are being tagged and tracked on the day.

Just create a wifi mirroring the one you use at work at home, done.

I don't connect to the company wifi at all. No good can come from that.

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.

1. No way it's accurate to a single room
2. This would have to be set up by the company. There's no way to automatically detect room from a specific AP or whatever.

Since consumers hate AI, the only way to keep the bubble going is by pivotting hard to selling worker surveillance software to businesses and trying to normalize the culture of it, Microsoft is a loser company.

Previously, Teams already offered the option to manually set the work location. This is intended, for example, to help colleagues orient themselves in a large office complex or on a campus. With the upcoming update, this process will be automated by the software determining – likely by comparing details such as the IP address or MAC address of the router – whether one is actually on-site.

ahahahaha what a bullshit excuse

I don't know why anyone would expect otherwise from Teams?

This is on work devices controlled by company-run AD/Azure/whatever MS calls it these days. This is not something you need to worry about on a personal device.

This is also part of why I willingly carry two phones while on the clock. When I'm off the clock, my work devices get shut off and kept in my backpack until next shift. Very few people I work with have my personal number, and they know never to use it except for life/death emergencies or memes.

Right... and to be clear every single Microsoft product can do so too. In fact every single proprietary software can do that. If you value your privacy and nobody can audit the code, you should assume it's being used to report your behavior. It might be aggregated, it might be anonymized, but it might not be and it might be to your boss.

That's the "beauty" of closed source : you do not know, so you should assume the worst.

Edit : "Oh but what about GDPR?" true, well check the ToS and probably find that data is being collected for "quality service and potentially other uses (including but not limited to AI)" in the fine prints.

If Governments moved away from american corporate software, and funded opensource software, maybe smaller businesses would also move to opensource software, it being free.

Find an alternative or pirate Adobe Find an alternative or pirate Microsoft Find an alternative or pirate Windows

Disgusting.