Microsoft Teams will start snitching to your boss when you’re not in the office

[King_Kamala61]

One of the reasons I have always preferred working for small businesses.

My boss now doesn't even know what I do. As long as the money is right he is literally nonexistent.

He asked me to list all my administrative tasks that take up most of my day.



I literally had to tell him my job is not admistrative. It's direct communications and crisis management.

He basically hit me with "Oh okay. Nevermind."

A Black Woman in power

 

[SheWantTheD]

They’re really trying to dead that WFH shyt.

A lot of companies completely got rid of their real estate or downsized so this ain’t possible

 

[Roid Jones]

Not just Teams, any application that you use through your company. My company uses Okta for SSO, MFA and other things so when i connect to my VPN or login to something else, i get a message on my phone to prove i am the one connecting. It tells you the location of where the request is sent, so if you can see it your company can see it.

Yeah my company uses Okta too

 

[Ohene]

if youre a boss/manager...and you are in the office yourself...can you not just walk around and see whos in the office?
these companies are fukked

 

[MustafaSTL]

My company already does this.. 3 days in the office 2 at home.

There are people that just swipe their badge then leave the office after like 20 minutes.

They are monitoring it more closely by checking if you are connected to the office WiFi or on VPN.

I go in at 8 and leave at lunch around 1-1:30 lol. Beat afternoon traffic

So managers/supervisors/boss can’t just walk around and see people are gone? Is this some huge office where people are rarely seen unless you make it a point to go to their office?

 

[SheWantTheD]

So managers/supervisors/boss can’t just walk around and see people are gone? Is this some huge office where people are rarely seen unless you make it a point to go to their office?

Huge corporation.. thankfully new manager is in another state.

Manager when I first started the role was in this location, but I can reserve a seat anywhere away from where he sits lol.

The corporation I work for has hundreds of thousands of employees

 

[BlackBall]

Probably one of the worst things you can use especially In a Big Org. Make sure it's low tech and you didn't install anything. Try hard white boys are just looking to hem someone up using them. Because once it's found disciplinary action is all but guaranteed.

Yup it’s usb my job doesn’t do keystroke tracking

 

[MischievousMonkey]

 

[Swirv]

how would that work when I'm connected to the VPN. I'm always at work location ...

either way we as long as we WORK on the working days it doesnt matter where we work.

Technically, an organization should only allow employees to access their work portal through a employer provided vpn for safety I thought?

 

[peppe]

Technically, an organization should only allow employees to access their work portal through a employer provided vpn for safety I thought?

Yeah thats what i meant.

My internet > work vpn > connected to work server.

So if im a africa and i connect to the work vpn im at work so i dont get this update. Makes no sense

 

[MischievousMonkey]

I feel like yall don't take into account that even if there are already ways to track employees, they may be costly or unpractical.

If the office is a huge flexible space, and managers and IT have work to do, they will be less inclined to spend the time and effort to track individual employees, as long as it isn't flagrant they're never at the office or underperforming.

This move by Teams makes it easier for them to track people, so they will do it more to reign in folks taking advantage of hybrid schedules.

 

[David_TheMan]

If you are doing something where this catches you, you deserve to be fired.

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

My boss now doesn't even know what I do. As long as the money is right he is literally nonexistent.

He asked me to list all my administrative tasks that take up most of my day.



I literally had to tell him my job is not admistrative. It's direct communications and crisis management.

He basically hit me with "Oh okay. Nevermind."

Being married doesn’t count

 

[David_TheMan]

Technically, an organization should only allow employees to access their work portal through a employer provided vpn for safety I thought?

They don't have to, I tend to think VPNs are the bare minimum, but zero trust application designers and sellers claim VPNs are a thing of the past.
(This will bite organizations in the ass)
So a great deal of forward leaning (idiotic) companies (including the DoD) are moving in this route

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

Lmao you don't need Teams to do this. Any internet security, MFA, or VPN app can tell IT where you are at all the time already.

MFA & VPN will tell the IT guy not your boss
Not scalable as a where are you solution