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  • Microsoft Teams is getting a controversial location tracking feature that users may hate

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  • Are you trying to say that messaging a co worker to see if theyre in the office is quicker than checking their status?

    You're welcome to continue doing that but that sounds awful and I doubt you'll do it once this rollsout.

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  • Oh yes all the 0 reasons you mentioned. How could I forget such a convincing argument.

    I'm thinking that you may have a social disability and be misunderstanding. This is not for every worker. If you work better communicating over text thats fine your business can accommodate you. But majority of humans communicate best face to face instead of over text or calls. Its not to say you can't effectively communicate over those mediums.

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  • By that logic dont bother implementing anything because what if it doesnt work.

    It'll work good enough for most and better than the current status situation.

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  • No one needs to know where you are. You aren't the only person in the world. Different people different usecase.

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  • You do realise talking face to face is objectively better than talking over zoom or text right? I dont know why you keep acting this stupid all over the thread.

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  • No?

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  • If they're in the office we can talk face to face if theyre at home we teams call. You are actually beyond cooked if you're unable to understand this.

    If your job is as simple as receive instruction return output then I see how this doesnt change much but thats not every job.

    If you don't talk to people why even have an office? This change isnt for fully remote workplaces.

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  • No not really it doesnt necessarily lead to any of that. Communication is human to human in many businesses around the world and it will be that way for many more years. Asking if someone is working from home and waiting for a reply is a pointless waste of time. This will be a welcome change for everyone except developers.

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  • You just have no idea and are lashing out at things you dont understand. You havent even read the article. There is no privacy issue here its not Microsoft tracking any more than they already do and its not employer tracking.

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  • To see if someone's in office. Example you book a meeting and you check the event in outlook and it shows that everyone's in office today so you can grab a meeting room and do it in person.

    Someone raises a ticket for an issue thats easy to solve manually and you see theyre in tbe office so you go fix it.

    Someone is looking for your coworker and you check teams and see hes working over at site B

    How can you not see what positive info this would give? Have you never asked someone if they are in the office today, I would find that pretty hard to believe.

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  • No one cares enough to update them thats the point but its still useful to be able to check at a glance if someone is wfh or not. I'm sorry this is such a challenging concept to you to grasp.

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  • For some people maybe this is true but for most it isnt. There are more people where this approach is useful vs not. The feature makes sense and is useful.

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  • No shit that is what is already done every day. Its not meaningfully different from this change other than being slower. You give up nothing by the way there is no privacy argument to be had you're using Microsoft teams in a work environment.

    Why do we have a little dot next to the users name that way people can see if they're online, offline, away or busy? You can just message them and ask.

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  • Im not a manager but im just struggling to see how you habe such a narrow view of work that you think its that linear. Most roles do require inter team and department cooperation and in those cases it's nice to be able to check teams and see if someone's in the office because then you can go talk to them directly.

    Why is knowing if someone is wfh or in office such a bad thing to you? Also where someone is is not irrelevant there are plenty of restrictions around work locations.

  • Do better guys

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  • Its impossible to "ask women" they arent a monolith I would never get anywhere. I have my lived experience and joke with women every day. I have crossed the line enough to get a sense of where it is with the people I interact with. If you're trying to reign harmless jokes like these memes then you're fighting a hard fight. The line for whats acceptable online is very blurry.

    Idk maybe people need to start making some more women focused memes to get a feel for where the line is on c/memes. Here is one i made off the dome.

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  • I do and its an inferior way of checking their status

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    1. Leave your device? But really you'll be able to say you were getting lunch and since you return 10mins later they'll see you're in the office. If they dont accept that then you'd be cooked with or without this feature.

    2. Saying neither MS or your employer will ever be content to only use limited information when they have access to more is a stupid point considering that both parties already have access to more information than this feature will provide. If they are bringing a personal device its probably already registered into some MDM software for basic device management of company assets and that provides them with more control than this will. If they dont then the company is probably to small and not interested in gathering this info or doing anything with it.

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  • Ignoring that this wont update your status to "In a coffee shop" for argument sake lets pretend it does.

    If your work allows you to work from a coffee shop and your status reflects that then whats the issue? If you aren't allowed then why are you working from a coffee shop. This doesnt make sense as an argument. Plenty of people have in their contract strict policy for work from home. My job would not allow work to be done outside office, home or specific sites. We have people who are allowed to work in coffee shops and airports and they get laptops with privacy screens and are told to not access sensitive information in those locations.

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  • Im glad that people in your office are responsible enough to keep their teams status updated but many don't and in a big company with majority hybrid workers this will be a useful feature and I look forward to it being enabled since im always in office.

    Your comment is wild I have to ask what you think you're fighting here? How does updating a teams status to display if you're working in the office or at home over step boundaries and open the floodgates for big scary control schemes? If its a company device this changes nothing, if they want to track your location they wont be using this teams feature. if they want to micromanage you or spy on you they wont be using this teams feature.