A simple Microsoft 365 Roadmap update will now generate a raft of unhappy headlines. The idea is simple. “When users connect to their organization’s Wi-Fi, Teams will automatically set their work location to reflect the building they are working in.”
Forget the locational anonymity of a Teams virtual background. Teams will update your location when connected to your company’s WiFi. On video, you may have your usual background complete with company logo. But your boss will know you’re not in work.
I think you nearly overestimate the skills and infrastructure at a company. Sure someone already knows, but a built in teams feature that dumbs it down enough for Carol to trivially see something new to bitch about is never a good thing.
Why is carol bitching about what she can see on teams that she can’t see looking around the office already?
From your question can i assume you’ve only been part of a group that works within a single room/building/city/country?
Seems like a lot of the incredulous ‘why would anyone care about x’ type responses to these kinds of things are from people who just don’t happen to personally be in the situation that they apply to, or even realize people could possibly experience something different than they do themselves.
I’m part of a distributed team which already makes this information available to everyone. It means when you go to message someone and it says they’re in the same office as you that you can just go and talk to them.
Then why was your question suggesting Carol isn’t getting any information she can’t get by looking around the office? You literally work in a group that your rhetorical question doesn’t even work in? It’s almost like you were being intentionally obtuse?
If that’s your remaining objection then sure.
When I make that comment I was thinking of a single office.
Maybe that’s office wouldn’t even use teams, or maybe Carol in that office wouldn’t be helped.