Microsoft Teams makes presence fiction in home office more difficult: With an update, the platform will track an employee's location via the office Wi-Fi.

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.

  • FelixCress@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    7 hours ago

    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.

    • ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialEnglish
      62·
      5 hours ago

      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.