Mac / iPhone have location services since find my mac / iphone and sends location of your device to apple and nobody gives a fuck, android sees and sends your every action, so is facebook that trains on your voice and photos, but no windows in workplace is your real enemy !
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I hope Teams announces when my CEO and other executives are not in the office. Just to level the field.
Hah, it will almost certainly have admin options that allow high level people to turn off that feature.
It'd be easier to list when they are
Here I am working remote in my basement like a dumb motherfucker when I could have been anywhere else
This is me everyday. I should get out more.
And this is useful to me how? A fucking retard HR person who wants you sick at work making everyone else sick too is probably who came up with this genius idea.
No, I want my design completed and my team happy. LOL today someone complained about having no excel in a machine that people normally don't use. I suggested to install libre office and no one complained. In the past I had suggested libre office or open office for various reasons and I would get looked at funny or laughed at or otherwise ignored. Now thanks to Microsoft and the power of AI, libre office is a contender!
Yeah, I had ms office up until June. With all of their trash, I'm finally leaving excel.
Maybe I’m dating myself, but it still seems incredible to me that a relatively small update to the location features in one piece of software triggers news articles about the broader societal implications.
Software has too much power over our lives.
And it's a terrible piece of software at that.
Maybe, but M$ has had quite an impact over office life for quite some time, and it seems like nearly every org is still paying the M$ tax, even after all these years. Teams is part of that stack, and while I don't know anyone tech-savvy that actually likes it for anything it supposedly solves, it gets used anyway. It is terrible as an IM client. Only one user at a time can share a screen, so it's terrible at any real collab, also. But it integrates with Outlook for scheduling meetings, so....
In addition, it seems like it is almost intentionally user-hostile when it comes to setting up prefs, like disabling incoming video as a default. This is a feature I've seen asked for over 5 years ago. When everyone was stuck at home and sometimes on rather slow/unreliable networks, Microsoft makes you disable incoming video on every single new Teams session, from all the geniuses that felt they were important enough to have their camera on all the time for no real reason.
Now you'd think they would have adapted to something like this, and turned this around very quickly at the beginning of Covid, as not only was it requested from users, but it would make a lot of sense (and maybe it lightens their servers load, too? Although I imagine video feeds don't get streamed through their servers?) and probably be a decent workaround to having audio properly work on slow/bursty network connections, etc.
And yet....I still don't see the feature as an option. I think I saw an answer about some setting that could be done globally or in a policy, as if that is really the answer. Again, it seems like it is software aimed at being sold to control freaks who also care nothing about the user experience of their captured user base. So, 5 years later, I get to disable incoming video on each call if some inconsiderate person has their video on.
hahaha I love how ass hat CxOs VPxs still believe that people at a desk in an office means work gets done.... lol. I see people at their desks still achieving diddly squat.
It's more about control than it is about productivity. Has been for a long time.
I mostly work from home ever since Covid. But I live reasonably close to the office and go in every once in a while. Usually it's for something like "team building" or meeting some people deemed "VIPs" (lol) or whatever the fuck. It's not always voluntary.
I have to mentally steel myself for getting very little done on days when I'm in the office. And nearly everyone else I work with does the same thing. It actually adds to the stress because that work load doesn't get any lighter for not being able to get to it.
The reason for all the lack of work? Well, there are longer in-person lunches. There are all the impromptu "pop-ins", the hallway chats, the talk while waiting for some coffee, the extra meetings on the schedule because "in person", etc...all that adds up to very little planned work getting moved forward. You might say there are the benefits of catching up and the occasional serendipity from a random snatch of conversation you eavesdropped on, etc.
While doing this a few times a year might have some benefits (but hard to quantify), I'm quite sure it's not worth doing every day, so I don't. Thankfully I have the option.
CxOs and VPxs have more money that they know what to do with. It isn't about getting work done, it's about making you miserable.
Teams/outlook has been doing this for a while. This is likely more for making it easier to see who is in the office to coordinate in person stuff like meetings and lunch.
If you want to be creeped out by Teams and other similar services, it can
- Detect if a conference room is in use even when not being used for a teams/zoom call.
- detect your voice and attach it to a transcript.
- detect your face to assign you name to a teams meeting in a conference room with other people in the room.
I actually wouldn't mind this at all. Where I work, we have an office but most people are only in one or two days a week. I try to keep to a schedule, but some weeks I have to move my office days around. When my schedule changes, I update my Teams location so people know where I am, but I wouldn't mind opting in to do it automatically.
But then again, my boss doesn't really care where I do my work, as long as it gets done. Not everyone has the luxury of a boss who isn't an asshat. If you are working in a place where you have to hide your work-from-home time, you should be looking for a new job.
Yeah I work at MSFT on a completely different team.
Teams recently asked if I wanted this and I was like.... "sure!"
Now when I'm in the office and people check my status it tells people my desk location and when I'm WFH or elsewhere it tells people I'm not in the building. I don't get people asking "hey are you in today?"
A lot of people in this thread are taking the headline literally like it's "are you online or away?". No. This is more of "are you at your desk in the office or working from a different building or from outside the facilities.
Sounds useful? Weird to imply the purpose of this is to expose people not in the office. The people who care about that already know.
I think you nearly overestimate the skills and infrastructure at a company. Sure someone already knows, but a built in teams feature that dumbs it down enough for Carol to trivially see something new to bitch about is never a good thing.
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Then I guess I'll always be not at work
Good luck with that. I work from home, use the unofficial Linux client for Teams and my status is always offline. 😆
I despise this software so much. The boss seems to be at least a bit open to ditching it, but I haven't fully convinced him yet. 🥹
Good.
Anyone who gets in bed with a company that uses these products deserves all the shit coming their way.
Until all companies start doing this.
Good thing we don't need to rely on software companies for video chat.
Teams once again continuing to undermine it's own existence by using even more stupid tricks to force people into the office.
If you want me in the office then don't force me to use tools that would allow me to do my job from anywhere.