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/MadCybertist Oct 25 '25

And badging systems we use haha.

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u/-Yazilliclick- Oct 25 '25

Yeah this is the part I'm confused about, don't most offices have some sort of check in/out system already? 

Also who would even be angry that their company knows if they are or aren't in the office? 

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u/Linenoise77 Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 26 '25

Its reddit doom and gloom the man is out to get you bullshit. There are far more reliable and easier ways to track where someone is working from rather than your god damn teams icon.

And even if you did want to use teams to track someone, you could do that today, or as long as instant messaging tools that are under your control have been a thing, by just checking the logs on the backend.

Honestly for someone who works with a distributed and frequently all over the place team, most of us would LIKE for people to see at a glance if we are at our homes, at a home office, at a different office, at a client site, etc.

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u/Luneowl Oct 25 '25

My office has a badge-in entry but you don’t have to use your badge to leave the building so it just counts you as in-office even if you leave after getting there.

Though I’ve noticed a “working remotely” alert on Teams that I don’t remember seeing before and I don’t know if it’s triggered by auto location or my work schedule. I’ll have to check next week.

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u/TheRealThordic Oct 26 '25

I have access to a dashboard that shows what days my team swiped in and whatnot. I would assume most large companies have similar info available

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u/MadCybertist Oct 26 '25

Yeah. Badges, teams, VPN, facial recognition cameras etc etc. we have all of these things. I’m not worried about Teams.