Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance
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#2Sounds like a useful feature tbh. I wouldn't ever work for a company again that didn't have fully flexible working (no requirements to come into the office at all if you don't want). But I also wouldn't lie to my boss about it.
I guess you can always use the web version via a VPN or something. I doubt it can deal with that.
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#3?
I’m not sure who would really care about this feature.
We can usually tell based on your background. And the people that have to be in office are tracked typically with badge swipes. And if you’re really that determined to work remote and your company doesn’t support it, wouldn’t it be better just to find a company that does rather than sneaking around?
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#4? I’m not sure who would really care about this feature. We can usually tell based on your background. And the people that have to be in office are tracked typically with badge swipes. And if you’re really that determined to work remote and your company doesn’t support it, wouldn’t it be better just to find a company that does rather than sneaking around?
People with the most in demand skills already are able to do that and companies still are confused why they can't find the skilled labor they desire.
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#5? I’m not sure who would really care about this feature. We can usually tell based on your background. And the people that have to be in office are tracked typically with badge swipes. And if you’re really that determined to work remote and your company doesn’t support it, wouldn’t it be better just to find a company that does rather than sneaking around?
I think it can and willl be used more statistically. Yes, from your background you will get a sense and form an opinion, but with this, you can generate a report that says with high accuracy where you have spent every hour. This will be more sharp ammunition in case the employer want to use it against you.
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#6Pure ragebait, location awareness existed pre-Teams in Lync/Skype/whatever.
Sounds like this was written by someone who thinks they're being sneaky by fucking off at work. They already know. Badge swipes and 1000 other ways.
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#7Sounds like a useful feature tbh. I wouldn't ever work for a company again that didn't have fully flexible working (no requirements to come into the office at all if you don't want). But I also wouldn't lie to my boss about it. I guess you can always use the web version via a VPN or something. I doubt it can deal with that.
Thats good for you but that doesn’t change other peoples situations.
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#8Thankfully this “update” shouldn’t affect me too much. We already have well established guidelines and schedules for remote work.
That being said, I feel like complaining about Teams. Who else is frustrated by its unusually short idle timer? Setting my status to “Away” after only five minutes just makes me look bad. There are definitely managers who somehow think that an 8 hour workday actually means 8 hours of continuous activity. Why can’t this be changed or configured to some other span of time? I wouldn’t complain about 15 minutes.
I got around this by downloading a program called caffeine. There are some other workarounds like preparing to start a fake call, or by entering a PowerPoint presentation and then alt-tabbing away from it.
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#9> Well, the main thing this brings to mind is an Amazon tactic that emerged after the pandemic. There was a big move to get people back to working in the office, and Amazon staffers who weren't happy with that could change their SSID (home Wi-Fi name) to match the company’s official office network.
> Now, do not take this as advice to do the same! It’s highly likely that a more advanced application like Teams has a more advanced check going on here, such as making sure your device has an IP address that matches the corporate office network, or checking the MAC address of the router.
Is there any reason you can't spoof literally all of that?
But if your boss really wants to know if you're in the office or not, they can track badge-swipes. That's what my employer does to enforce RTO compliance.
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#10> When users connect to their organization's Wi-Fi, Teams will automatically set their work location to reflect the building they are working in.
Great. Now the secure VM I use will always appear remote, when I'm in the office.