A clever person can use Elixir and Nerves on a carefully hidden Raspberry Pi to circumvent this.
Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance
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Re: Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lol. Autohotkey on a corp machine
Lol. Following "corporate policy"; that's for suckers. Hacker mindset means you can't stop the signal, mal!
People are down voting you but this is very similar to the answer I got from a real employee (as opposed to a v dash) at Microsoft. Their solution was they use something called power toys, which is technically a Microsoft product.
Problem is I've worked at places where I don't have admin access to my own machine and it is more common the you'd think.
Re: Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance
#73If you need software to figure out if somebody is in the office, then it isn’t important for them to be in the office. The supposed benefit of being in the office is because teams work better in person. If everybody else is at the office, it’s obvious who isn’t there.
> The supposed benefit of being in the office is because teams work better in person. If everybody else is at the office, it’s obvious who isn’t there. We're talking about corporate America here. They say "RTO because teams work better in person" while they simultaneously contradict themselves requiring distributed teams. What really matters is the leader is tall, looks important in suit, and makes the number go up (…
Several months ago my job required RTO for “local” employees (not all that local). I live a flight away from the office so I got to stay remote.
Recently, quite a few remote employees were given advanced notice of lay-offs. Myself impacted.
Fast forward a bit. Now I’m training a contractor in another country to do my job.
We are expected to monitor systems 24/7.
RTO is so clearly a scam.
Re: Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance
#74I thought the "work location" feature, where you set your work location to "office" or "remote", was pretty OK for letting people know if you are in the office. People do a similar thing with slack so you don't waste time trying to find someone in the office if they are working remotely.
(Am I the only person with wired ethernet on my desk(s)? I gave up on wi-fi during the pandemic due to terrible Zoom performance, and have kept wired ever since - lower latency, lower jitter, no interference, and faster overall.)
Maybe the new bit for Teams is aggregation and tracking. That probably isn't going to have any good effects.
Re: Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lol. Following "corporate policy"; that's for suckers. Hacker mindset means you can't stop the signal, mal!
People are down voting you but this is very similar to the answer I got from a real employee (as opposed to a v dash) at Microsoft. Their solution was they use something called power toys, which is technically a Microsoft product. Problem is I've worked at places where I don't have admin access to my own machine and it is more common the you'd think.
Are you sure that PowerToys require admin access to the computer? Most user preferences do not need that.