This is a low effort article. Microsoft has been reporting location for years as a security feature.
traumalt on
Any company I worked for always knew which IP addresses I connected from and where roughly I was at a given time, its part of any basic cybersecurity setup.
Teams displaying your location is hardly “letting employer know” lol.
mrwobblez on
If for nothing else but for tax purposes, I feel like this shouldn’t be controversial (I guess unless the employer is being shady about it)
GreyBeardEng on
“Dave is in the basement of the main building and his soul is dying”
natefrogg1 on
I’m so going to abuse this
jacksbox on
Huge nothingburger. Your employer already knows a ton about you when you use corporate devices, if they aren’t living in the Stone age.
usmannaeem on
Now that’s just plain stupid.
Daimakku1 on
I told my manager that he’ll have to pay me extra if he wants me to put Teams on my personal phone. Hell no.
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Pickel_Bucket_317 on
I am my own boss so technically I’m tracking myself… and I don’t like what I see.
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StatusFortyFive on
I.T. administrator here, location sharing has to be enabled manually, also there are a lot of privacy issues that a company has to take into consideration before enabling. In the European Union for the company I work for this was an immediate hard nope. This article is sensationalism. See below on how to configure it in your tenant.
I work as a cashier in a supermarket, I’m pretty sure my boss already knows where I am.
mooptastic on
jokes on you MS, my company forces me to sign into a corporate VPN every day! wait…
revilo-1988 on
Well, I don’t lug my laptop everywhere with me, so how does it know I’m out shopping in that scenario? 🤔
triffy on
Time to Unionize.
lamin-ceesay on
“Using smartphones is a company policy”, so employees are fucked out of the privacy league!
Countryb0i2m on
Teams has always had the ability to do this specifically for team’s phone because they needed it for federal requirements for 911 so they can route you inside the building within 300 feet.
Vivid_Garage on
My boss is too cheap to pay for Microsoft products. He said, “Why would I pay for any of that when Gmail and Google docs are free”. GMail is shit compared to Outlook, but at least I’m not being tracked?
wokyman on
I guess this is why I started to get that “location is turned off” popup repeatedly. I turned location off because the icon kept annoyingly turning on and off in the taskbar notification area. Either stay on or off FFS!!
Gouzi00 on
Microsoft is unable to even locate a stolen devices..
Major-Piccolo5422 on
This is really nothing new- if your employer issues you cell phones and laptops they know where you are-
Oceanbreeze871 on
This only works with WiFi
“When users connect to their organization’s Wi-Fi, Teams will automatically set their work location to reflect the building they are working in.” Conversely, if you’re not connected to work Wi-Fi, then it shows that instead and you will be found out.”
readyflix on
AND, people will still use M$-Windows because it’s convenient.
AND, a lot of people are unfortunately required to use M$-Windows at work.
mike_stifle on
The feature is not tracking you. Only reporting that you are in the office when you connect to the local wifi. Calm down.
FoxMeadow7 on
But only in US, am I right?
panchiramaster on
At this point, everyone should have a burner.
BrokenPickle7 on
As a system administrator for a large company, we know where your device is via other methods and have been able to for a long time now
Dopehauler on
A few yesrs ago my boss try some creepy shit like that and I refuse to download the app, no, I didnt get fired.
S3pD3cM0n on
I used to be okay putting Slack on my personal phone and installing the required MDM profile, but no more. They can give me a work phone that will stay firmly in airplane mode during off hours.
orion3311 on
Loving the comments here. So much misinformation. People so up in arms about their employers that have their SSN and everything else. Yet will happily post up their dinners and locations on Facebook practically realtime lol. The bottom line is, if you have a phone in your hand, youre being tracked, and by way more unknown and larger entities than your employer.
Troll_Slayer1 on
Time to get a dumb phone
Andre1661 on
Us boomers remember the early days of Microsoft and Windows; so much optimism and happiness over each new update that made our work lives much more productive and gave us some incredible digital tools. Now it’s as if every week there’s another news article about some feature that Microsoft is forcing onto users that only benefits Microsoft and it’s corporate partners, and is yet another big Fuck You to Windows users.
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IM IN MY BATHROOM SHITTING, BOSS.
This is a low effort article. Microsoft has been reporting location for years as a security feature.
Any company I worked for always knew which IP addresses I connected from and where roughly I was at a given time, its part of any basic cybersecurity setup.
Teams displaying your location is hardly “letting employer know” lol.
If for nothing else but for tax purposes, I feel like this shouldn’t be controversial (I guess unless the employer is being shady about it)
“Dave is in the basement of the main building and his soul is dying”
I’m so going to abuse this
Huge nothingburger. Your employer already knows a ton about you when you use corporate devices, if they aren’t living in the Stone age.
Now that’s just plain stupid.
I told my manager that he’ll have to pay me extra if he wants me to put Teams on my personal phone. Hell no.
[deleted]
I am my own boss so technically I’m tracking myself… and I don’t like what I see.
[deleted]
I.T. administrator here, location sharing has to be enabled manually, also there are a lot of privacy issues that a company has to take into consideration before enabling. In the European Union for the company I work for this was an immediate hard nope. This article is sensationalism. See below on how to configure it in your tenant.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/manage-location-sharing-in-microsoft-teams-583dd649-87fc-4b23-aed6-f4e2279297f9
I work as a cashier in a supermarket, I’m pretty sure my boss already knows where I am.
jokes on you MS, my company forces me to sign into a corporate VPN every day! wait…
Well, I don’t lug my laptop everywhere with me, so how does it know I’m out shopping in that scenario? 🤔
Time to Unionize.
“Using smartphones is a company policy”, so employees are fucked out of the privacy league!
Teams has always had the ability to do this specifically for team’s phone because they needed it for federal requirements for 911 so they can route you inside the building within 300 feet.
My boss is too cheap to pay for Microsoft products. He said, “Why would I pay for any of that when Gmail and Google docs are free”. GMail is shit compared to Outlook, but at least I’m not being tracked?
I guess this is why I started to get that “location is turned off” popup repeatedly. I turned location off because the icon kept annoyingly turning on and off in the taskbar notification area. Either stay on or off FFS!!
Microsoft is unable to even locate a stolen devices..
This is really nothing new- if your employer issues you cell phones and laptops they know where you are-
This only works with WiFi
“When users connect to their organization’s Wi-Fi, Teams will automatically set their work location to reflect the building they are working in.” Conversely, if you’re not connected to work Wi-Fi, then it shows that instead and you will be found out.”
AND, people will still use M$-Windows because it’s convenient.
AND, a lot of people are unfortunately required to use M$-Windows at work.
The feature is not tracking you. Only reporting that you are in the office when you connect to the local wifi. Calm down.
But only in US, am I right?
At this point, everyone should have a burner.
As a system administrator for a large company, we know where your device is via other methods and have been able to for a long time now
A few yesrs ago my boss try some creepy shit like that and I refuse to download the app, no, I didnt get fired.
I used to be okay putting Slack on my personal phone and installing the required MDM profile, but no more. They can give me a work phone that will stay firmly in airplane mode during off hours.
Loving the comments here. So much misinformation. People so up in arms about their employers that have their SSN and everything else. Yet will happily post up their dinners and locations on Facebook practically realtime lol. The bottom line is, if you have a phone in your hand, youre being tracked, and by way more unknown and larger entities than your employer.
Time to get a dumb phone
Us boomers remember the early days of Microsoft and Windows; so much optimism and happiness over each new update that made our work lives much more productive and gave us some incredible digital tools. Now it’s as if every week there’s another news article about some feature that Microsoft is forcing onto users that only benefits Microsoft and it’s corporate partners, and is yet another big Fuck You to Windows users.