Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Company If You're Not At Work

"When users connect to their organization's Wi-Fi, Teams will automatically set their work location to reflect the building they are working in."

"Forget the locational anonymity of a Teams virtual background. Teams will update your location when connected to your company's Wi-Fi. On video, you may have your usual background complete with company logo. But your boss will know you're not in the office."

"The feature is poised to reduce confusion at the workplace, allowing managers and employees to identify each other's location in the office, Windows Central explains. It can be a productivity booster, meaning you'll no longer have to manually look for your counterparts at the office or even give them a call; you can easily pinpoint their location via Teams as long as they are connected to the office's WiFi network."

A Microsoft 365 Roadmap update will enable Teams to automatically set a user's work location when the user connects to the organization's Wi‑Fi, reflecting the building they are working in. The change reveals building-level presence to colleagues and managers and can defeat locational anonymity provided by virtual backgrounds. The feature aims to reduce confusion and boost productivity by letting coworkers pinpoint each other's office location via Wi‑Fi. The approach raises privacy, workplace surveillance, and security concerns because location data is sensitive and presenting it to others could create awkward conversations and risks. An Oct. 25 Teams security compromise increases risk for users both inside and outside the office.

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