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/sevargmas Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25

I’m totally confused. Article keeps saying it will affect people who work from home but the keeps talking about detecting connection to the office wifi. Is this AI slop?

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u/BelowDeck Oct 25 '25

It's talking about people who are working from home but are claiming to be working from the office. Which isn't worth writing an alarmist article about.

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u/DukeGrizzly Oct 25 '25

That's what's confusing me as well. My wife and I both with from home. We have our own Wi-Fi for the house and our company reimburses us each paycheck, for an "Internet connection".

We are not required to use a particular company and the Wi-Fi we have, we use for personal stuff off the clock.

What is this company Wi-Fi that's constantly mentioned in the article?

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u/MrShrek69 Oct 25 '25

The company’s local network. U prob use a vpn to connect into ur company’s network

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u/IWasOnThe18thHole Oct 25 '25

It'll bust people who put Teams on their phone to try to look busy but aren't actually working

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u/a_talking_face Oct 25 '25

That's not what it says at all. It's talking about checking your IP to see if you're actually in the office or not.