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Im glad that people in your office are responsible enough to keep their teams status updated but many don't and in a big company with majority hybrid workers this will be a useful feature and I look forward to it being enabled since im always in office.
Your comment is wild I have to ask what you think you're fighting here? How does updating a teams status to display if you're working in the office or at home over step boundaries and open the floodgates for big scary control schemes? If its a company device this changes nothing, if they want to track your location they wont be using this teams feature. if they want to micromanage you or spy on you they wont be using this teams feature.
i've worked in multiple organisations of over 100 000 employees with majority hybrid workers and this has never come up. can you explain what positives this information will give you?
To see if someone's in office. Example you book a meeting and you check the event in outlook and it shows that everyone's in office today so you can grab a meeting room and do it in person.
Someone raises a ticket for an issue thats easy to solve manually and you see theyre in tbe office so you go fix it.
Someone is looking for your coworker and you check teams and see hes working over at site B
How can you not see what positive info this would give? Have you never asked someone if they are in the office today, I would find that pretty hard to believe.
If only you had access to a piece of communications software with which you could ask your coworkers if they’re in the office or not, and when they’re likely to be.
Maybe MS could make one of those that worked.
Are you trying to say that messaging a co worker to see if theyre in the office is quicker than checking their status?
You're welcome to continue doing that but that sounds awful and I doubt you'll do it once this rollsout.
My team is constantly on the road and don’t live at their computers.
I doubt any of our guys actually realise you can set your status on Teams, and no one would think to look at it.