Microsoft Teams Will Start Tracking Office Attendance (tomsguide.com)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/10/24/2236218/microsoft-teams-will-start-tracking-office-attendance
- Source link: https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/office-software/microsoft-teams-will-start-snitching-to-your-boss-when-youre-not-in-the-office-and-this-update-is-coming-in-december
> Microsoft Teams is about to deal a heavy blow to those who like to work from home for peace and quiet. In a new feature update rolling out December 2025, the platform will [1]track a worker's location using the office Wi-Fi , to see whether you're actually there or not. From a boss' perspective, this would eliminate any of that confusion as to where your team actually is. But for those people who have found their own sanctuary of peaceful productivity by working from home, consider this a warning that Teams is about to tattle on you.
According to the [2]Microsoft 365 roadmap : "When users connect to their organization's Wi-Fi, Teams will automatically set their work location to reflect the building they are working in." The location of that worker will apparently update automatically upon connecting.
It's set to launch on Windows and macOS, with rollout starting at the end of this year. "This feature will be off by default," notes Microsoft. But "tenant admins will decide whether to enable it and require end-users to opt-in."
[1] https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/office-software/microsoft-teams-will-start-snitching-to-your-boss-when-youre-not-in-the-office-and-this-update-is-coming-in-december
[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap
Taking Office 365 literally, again. (Score:5, Funny)
I already posted this earlier, but Microsoft should really stop taking Office 365 literally.
Re: (Score:2)
You're a culture mismatch, I'm afraid we'll have to let you go.
Seems agressive and unecessary. (Score:2)
My company just tracks badge swipes and enforces it so compliance with return to office policies isn't really an issue. We are also allowed a certain amount of flexibility, so it's not that onerous.
Every single year since I've been alive (Score:3)
The world has gotten worse for anyone that works for a living and better for anyone who owns shit for a living.
And every single year I've heard more people freaking out about trans girls in sports or violent video games or all these gosh darn immigrants or any one of a million things that have nothing to do with the 50 trillion dollars that have been taken out of our pockets and put in the pockets of the 1%.
I am so fucking tired of stupid mother fucker is falling from moral panics. And I am so fucking tired of being made to compete in an endless race to the bottom because it's so easy to trigger tribalism and bigotry.
The funny thing is and this is why you are all so fucking stupid, if I mention tribalism that's cool and I can get modded up but if I mentioned bigotry that's not cool and I get modded down even though they are effectively the same thing in this context.
Do you notice how easy it is to manipulate you? And I'm just some dumb fuck on a dead website. Imagine what a billionaire with focus groups can do.
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Your world.
Mine has gotten better every year. Made more money, worked less hard, after some period of time.
No complaints about the state of the world as far as I am concerned, despite the fact that I seem to be the only one I know that doesn't have one or more rental properties.
WFH chess... (Score:2)
I use a wired connection. Check!
Actually, I'm retired. So checkmate, you MSFT fucking losers...
Fully remote by contract (Score:2)
I'm fully remote. When my contract arrived a few years ago, even though the job was advertised and interviewed for as fully remote, it had the usual BS clauses saying that the company has the right to ask me to work from the office. Not only that, but they reserved the right to temporarily make me work from any office they had in the world.
So I turned around and said: "Which part of FULLY remote you don't understand? I'm not signing this."
Luckily, I've got a pretty unique skillset and they really wanted me
Opt (Score:2)
> "tenant admins will decide whether to enable it and require end-users to opt-in."
That is a misuse of the term "opt-in". That is like saying I am requiring you to volunteer.
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Freedom is slavery.
Against all evidence (Score:2)
Studies show that MANY people get more done in the office. They're not anxiously looking at the clock to see when they can bolt out so they can get on with their real lives, and they don't burn out from commuting.
I've been saying this for literal decades, since the 90s, honestly: people at Microsoft AREN'T stupid, so when they do stupid things, it's ON PURPOSE.
Someone has read all the same evidence I have and they've determined that they'd rather have people LESS productive but MORE under control. Maybe it'
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A colleague of mine went to the hardware store and bought a pair of industrial ear-muffs.
Open-plan absolutely is a drain on productivity. Casual gossip, overhearing others on calls.
Work recently asked us to return to the office 3 days a week for 'collaboration', which is codeword for dump a bunch of stuff that is someone else's responsibility on me. Just let me do my fucking work in peace. Oh and the commute 2 hours a day on public transport...
As a salaryman in my 50s, I am tired of the bulltish.
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. (Score:1)
I just fire up MS Word and put a paper weight on the delete key and I'm always online, all the time... I wonder when they will figure that out. If so, I can go back to the alarm clock so the mouse moves every second or continuously if you find a '70s alarm clock.
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Search mouse jigglers; there are USB ones that the machine thinks is a mouse, and ones that sit on your trackpad and simulate a finger. And they're cheap!
However neither will make your machine appear to be on office wifi.
that's stupid (Score:2)
I can configure my home wifi with the same ip network, mac address, and SSD as work. Explain how they're going to determine that I'm not in the office.
In unrealted news (Score:2)
The use of remote desktop access software increases.
Microsoft wants to be hated more (Score:2)
Apparently they are starved for attention, and any attention is good, right?
The reason you don't enjoy work (Score:2)
The reason you don't enjoy work is because if your manager sees that you are happy, he thinks you are not working hard enough. They find a way to achieve their success metric of making you unhappy. This happens in a lot of offices. [1]Success metric achieved [youtube.com].
If you were happy, you would do better work, and more efficient work. Unfortunately, "better" and "more efficient" are not success metrics (in many cases).
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUTAL9LDHRc
Re: The reason you don't enjoy work (Score:2)
Unfortunately, Iâ(TM)ve had to supervise problematic employees who go AWOL, arenâ(TM)t where theyâ(TM)re supposed to be, or create general personal safety issuesâ"situations that could expose either myself or the organization to liability if they were to get injured (or worse) while not in the office or at home as required. It always seems to be the small minority of bad employees who ruin things for everyone else, forcing middle managers to implement the lame monitoring tools that senio