Microsoft Teams erhält eine neue Standortverfolgungsfunktion, die es Chefs ermöglicht, Mitarbeiter auszuspionieren – Untersuchungen zeigen, dass dies zu Rückschlägen bei der Belegschaft führen könnte
https://www.itpro.com/security/privacy/microsoft-teams-is-getting-a-new-location-tracking-feature-that-lets-bosses-snoop-on-staff-research-shows-it-could-cause-workforce-pushback
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>Microsoft has clearly recognized that this feature will raise concerns of workplace surveillance. Indeed, the auto-updating location system has to be actively turned on.
>“This feature will be off by default,“ the company said in an explainer document. „Tenant admins will decide whether to enable it and require end-users to opt-in.“
It seems like Microsoft is determined to piss off users of literally every single product it sells right now. This might be ‚off by default‘ but you can guarantee nosey managers are going to push for it to be activated, then push for staff to opt-in.
Complete mess of a company from top to bottom.
Location tracking systems and activity tracking systems are so toxic in the workplace.
Ill never forget the startup I was working for that required employees to install an activity tracking software that logged keystrokes and took pictures of your screens at random intervals. Required you to use your personal computer btw. Didn’t send hardware, expected wfh people to use their personal computers.
Luckly I had an old laptop that I used to install the software on and just put an autoclicker on to keep activity up.
I honestly couldn’t belive the gall of that guy to require that. Like, we work from home, the point of working from home is so that we can get other things done when we are not busy at work. You dont need to know when im taking my dog out for a walk between tasks.
I thought it was already implemented, although in a different way.
On Skype for Business, I set my location once and for all, and the app remembered it. For example, I wrote once ‚Home‘ while at home, and ‚Office‘ while at the office, and the app remembered for years.
And once I wrote ‚On the field‘ while on a work trip on Kenya, and it remembered the setting when I was in Ghana few months later (but this last option was much less consistent).
This looks much more invasive, though.
This is old news and about a feature that’s been in for a while already. You can already do this. This article just wants to cash in on the clicks and the hate.
So when do we start burning things like the French do?
Teams is the worst of these apps for a hundred different reasons, but are people’s companies not already doing this?
Ours automatically tracks badge swipes. Everyone is required to be in the office a certain number of days per month (varies depending on role) and at the end of the month, if your badge wasn’t swiped in that many times, an email automatically gets sent to your manager and director.
I have a built in feature I call: give them respect first and build up trust that they can deliver, if my targets are being met, i dont care that they took a break to cuddle with their cat
Microsoft can’t even get geolocation via IP address right and routinely attribute IPs to where the companies business is located not the block the IP actually serves.. or worse screw up whole blocks to be one geolocation like when they fucked up all IPv6 traffic and broke CAS policies a couple years back.
Hell they can’t even change peoples teams statuses to match their Outlook calendar meetings and will mark people offline or active and free while they are literally in teams meetings.
I wouldn’t trust them to know where their own headquarters is never mind where my employees are.
Mistrust begets mistrust. Do they want that reputation?
None of their shit works well.
Y’all realize your location is tracked in sign ins already, and has been for years
Whats the point when everyone is pushing RTO
You need research to show that?
Who the hell needed research to tell them that? What’s next? New research reveals that water is wet!