Microsoft Teams makes presence fiction in home office more difficult: With an update, the platform will track an employee's location via the office Wi-Fi.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51826091

Specifically, Teams will detect if the user has connected to the company’s own Wi-Fi and automatically set the work location accordingly to the respective building.

I wonder if I’m not the only one: Nearly every time I fire up Teams at home for the weekly progress meeting, it tries to trick me into selecting an option letting ‘my organization’ have administrative control over my entire PC

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