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.
Implementing useless features and fixing nothing since 1975.
Actually true. I have no idea what features that were actual improvements, at least since windows 7.
Windows is the same shit it always was. A total mess of slow, ugly programs and lots of annoying notifications and stream of updates that makes the system slower and slower.
Dont forget the constant shuffling of buttons and menus so that you are constantly learning everything for the first time and can never become proficient at using their software.
Where in the FUCK in Outlook currently is an option to use preformatted text? It’s not a style I could pick nor I could find an option to make my own. I send copy-paste from terminal every now and then and if it’s formatted like normal text it’s nearly useless. It used to be a text style I could pick, but this new-new-new-classic-new outlook doesn’t have it anymore.
Select all, change to consolas font. And cry.
Change it to WingDings and sit back while the world burns around you.
I mean, it’s a useful feature… But only if you have a good company culture.
if you have a good company culture you don’t use teams
Which is as probable as winning the lottery.
They exist, but people don’t leave them once there, so new jobs don’t come up as often.
I’d argue they evaporte more and more every year as companies are acquired or if they get a new CEO that’s all about cutting costs blindly without any regard for quality or quality of life.
Not many left.
Yes, I worked at one of those pre-covid. I remember my colleague leaving her laptop and work phone on her desk at the end of the day around 4pm. We also had small offices with 2-4 people in a historical building right in the city center.
Then we merged with a bigger company, their culture ate us, and all the best people left, the rest are sitting in an open office at the edge of the city. Funny enough, I worked on the merger as one of the leads, I was so happy getting an oportunity like that while young. Now looking back I realized that it was a bad thing we have done (not that we had a choice), and the end result is worse for employees, customers, and even shareholders.
Agreed. I feel like I’m in one, and the things that make us thrive are being tested like an immune system, against what feels like a deliberate Maek Number Go Up infection. It’s stressful and I can only try to trust that it’s necessary. I guess we have to keep that stock number up or else we get bought and destroyed by a competitor.
Not a fan of this whole system sometimes.
I have an awesome job. But its probably because of the union.
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.
There’s a huge difference between a piece of data being recorded in a SIEM somewhere and the data being displayed up front all of the time for micro managers to pounce on.
It’s just like ai photo generation. Yes it could always be done with photoshop/checking network logs but making it easier for more people/managers to see encourages more bad behavior and micromanagement.
if they bother setting it up
Yeah this is shitty managers wet dream coming through.
Shitty managers are already breathing down your neck though, they didn’t exactly wait for this piece to be major annoyances….
Now they can breathe down your neck from the comfort of their own home!
yes
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.
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.
Yeah, that’s so much effort, I’d want to be paid extra for it.
Teams is so slow and is missing so many quality of life features.
Luckily this kind of data is illegal to use in Norway
There’s a whole bunch of ways to do that already. This isn’t really new
Teams isn’t the program actively spying on people (yet), that’s Viva engage.
So if I’m reading this right, won’t a VPN totally fuck with the system? Cause its a nessessity for some to get into local networking.
I guess the only part of this that is remarkable is that they are doing it with Teams.
Just create a wifi mirroring the one you use at work at home, done.
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The fact that Cisco has been able to triangulate your phone’s wifi mac position in 2d space for a decade is unrelated. It’s how protesters are being tagged and tracked on the day.
I don’t connect to the company wifi at all. No good can come from that.
I love company Wi-Fi. I love company. pays my money. connect directly to my tight holes
Since consumers hate AI, the only way to keep the bubble going is by pivotting hard to selling worker surveillance software to businesses and trying to normalize the culture of it, Microsoft is a loser company.
Previously, Teams already offered the option to manually set the work location. This is intended, for example, to help colleagues orient themselves in a large office complex or on a campus. With the upcoming update, this process will be automated by the software determining – likely by comparing details such as the IP address or MAC address of the router – whether one is actually on-site.
ahahahaha what a bullshit excuse
- No way it’s accurate to a single room
- This would have to be set up by the company. There’s no way to automatically detect room from a specific AP or whatever.
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
Oops read it slightly wrong :!
Sure there is.
Keep a database of bssid’s and their gps coordinates.
Triangulate your location by the bssids around you and their signal strength.
You can use the netsh command in windows to see this info. You can use an app like geomac to see the location info of bssid’s from google, apple, Microsoft, and others.
