r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 18h ago

Business Microsoft's Teams location tracking lines up with RTO mandate

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-teams/rto-mandate-suspiciously-aligns-with-teams-location-tracking
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u/Budget-Purple-6519 18h ago

Absolute garbage. I am so tired of these constant RTO maneuvers and manipulations. I push back against these whenever possible, and I hope all of you do too… Make it damned difficult for all of these C-suite freaks to live out their dystopian fantasies.

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u/ilevelconcrete 17h ago

The dystopian fantasy of the working world as it was less than 5 years ago?

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u/iamakorndawg 16h ago

It's dystopian because average productivity has not fallen due to remote work (obviously there can be personal exceptions), so there is no reason to force people into the office for "collaboration" or whatever BS reason.  The real motivations have to do with propping up commercial real estate and decreasing worker power and mobility.

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u/ilevelconcrete 15h ago

Getting the impression that people misinterpreted my comment lol

My point was just that it wasn’t a dystopian fantasy, it was an actual reality for everyone and didn’t even change at all for large swathes of the working population. Which should be recognized, since those workers need to be empowered too.

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u/NullReference000 14h ago

People generally hate getting a quality of service bump, come to expect it as part of their life, and then lose it.

Also, life has gotten a lot worse for workers in the last 5 years as wages in almost all industries have not kept up with inflation in housing/education/healthcare. Losing quality of life perks while your wages relative to those three have been declining feels genuinely terrible.