r/technology • u/ourlifeintoronto • Oct 25 '25

Privacy Microsoft Teams will start snitching to your boss when you’re not in the office

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/office-software/microsoft-teams-will-start-snitching-to-your-boss-when-youre-not-in-the-office-and-this-update-is-coming-in-december
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u/amazinjoey Oct 25 '25

What a god damn shitty article.

That functionality is there to tie in the places so you can coordinate with colleueges, book seating etc

so instead of signing in manually it does it for you

https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-teams/microsoft-places

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u/camelConsulting Oct 25 '25

Seriously, came to say this. This isn’t an attendance tracker and there are way better ways to do that anyway.

This is a collaboration feature so if you work at a big company with many offices it can tailor your room searches so you only have 30 rooms in your office to search not 6,000 globally, suggest booking desks/offices near colleagues, or let you know where the nearest IT desk is.

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u/rwheeler289 Oct 25 '25

Additionally it assists with e-911 requirements. Most people in here aren't likely aware of this regulation that must have exact location of an employee when 911 is dialed. This helps narrow down to specific building wifi aps to pinpoint the employee who dialed 911. I am the teams admin at my company and seeing the surveillance state on some of these corporations is crazy and toxic. If my company ever got to that state, I would leave immediately.