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.

  • IWW4@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    2 hours ago

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

  • Nighed@feddit.ukEnglish
    25·
    3 hours ago

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

  • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.orgEnglish
    13·
    3 hours ago

    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.

  • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
    31·
    2 hours ago
    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.
    • TJA!@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      41 minutes ago

      You are correct, but you would have to read more that the title of this post to know that. To copy what op already cited:

      set the work location accordingly to the respective building.

      It will only tell you in which building the person is, not in which room.

      And yes, the company still has to tell teams which building has which Wi-Fi SSN. So this is completely on the company to enable and configure

  • FelixCress@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    4 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
      3·
      2 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.