"Late last month, reports surfaced that Microsoft Teams would add a new feature in December of this year, which would pinpoint the location of any employee using the company's Wi-Fi. For example, if your Chicago-based manager has the expectation that you work in the New York office four days a week, but you only make it to the office two days a week, your boss will soon know."
"Many companies require employees to use a corporate VPN to tunnel into the company's own internet network, for reasons of security and stability. Once connected to the company's Wi-Fi via a VPN (virtual private network), managers or system administrators can determine that the employee is not in any of the company's buildings that have Wi-Fi, thus putting them "out of bounds" from company property and in violation of any in-office policies."
Microsoft has updated a Teams feature that can automatically set a user's work location when the user connects to an organization's Wi‑Fi, and the company has not explained what changed. The feature can pinpoint which office building an employee is working in and could enable managers to verify in‑office attendance. The capability intersects with post‑COVID return‑to‑office tensions and may be used to enforce presence requirements. Many employees question the necessity of being in an office after extended remote work. Companies often require a corporate VPN for secure access, and VPN connections can be used to determine whether a device is on company premises and flag policy violations.
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