I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users

Post by varispeed » Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 12:04 PM UTC

gigel82 wrote: post #34

leipert wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That’s why I have personal property that the company isn’t able to access so I can conduct personal activities with some level of privacy. The problem right now is: due to Work from home, you basically have blurred the lines between the digital company and private assets. Either you have a company device; or even a personal device running this software in your private networks doing and telemetering you don’t know…

I wish there was a better solution to this. I tried creating a VM and joining that to the work "services" but HyperV, VirtualBox, etc. all add an audio delay making Teams unusable. Also tried Barrier and dedicating one monitor to work, but I still can't share/mix the audio so have 2 separate headsets. I know ideally I'd just use the work computer all the time when "working", but they're VPN-ing all traffic and I occa…

Post by varispeed » Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 12:11 PM UTC

015a wrote: post #28

> "Teams could soon be a digital platform as important as the internet browser." - Satya Nadella Every person reading this should be scared, because he's not wrong. Ever since the pandemic started, 90% of our B2B SaaS platform customers (current and prospects) have asked "do you have a Teams app". Its sudden ; it was not like this a year ago. Its an "end the conversation" question for maybe half of them, similar to h…

Post by varispeed » Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 12:15 PM UTC

masswerk wrote: post #39

I really think, companies should actively inform their team leaders that metrics and scores are not an adequate measure for performance. E.g., a person may have great scores, but is in actuality just micro-managing their incompetence at the cost of everyone else's performance. Metrics may indicate a certain behavior, or they may hint at the opposite, or they may be even somewhat random, as they record just a certain…

Post by varispeed » Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 12:19 PM UTC

_y5hn wrote: post #32

tannhaeuser wrote: post #19

In my experience, Teams, even with the official Linux app (Electron-based) simply doesn't work on Linux, just like Skype for Enterprise didn't work before. Had an appointment the other week with a customer, and had to resort to dial-in with audio-only. I guess you need a corporate account or something, but Teams wouldn't say. When I wanted to start a video call, an error message would flash up briefly, like 100ms, so…

On Mint 20.1, both Teams app and webapp works. Might be dependent on distro/versions. It's still slow and bloated, so I quit it at EOD.

Post by brainzap » Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 12:37 PM UTC

gnicholas wrote: post #47

I can't believe how aggressive Teams is at inserting itself in my login items (on a Mac). At first, I thought it just happened when I installed the application. But nope — any time I open Teams, it will re-insert itself in my list of login items. This happens no matter how many times I have manually removed it. I think it even happens more than once per launch because I recently launched it to join a call and then im…