Microsoft Teams Will Start Tracking Office Attendance

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Guide: Microsoft Teams is about to deal a heavy blow to those who like to work from home for peace and quiet. In a new feature update rolling out December 2025, the platform will track a worker's location using the office Wi-Fi, to see whether you're actually there or not. From a boss' perspective, this would eliminate any of that confusion as to where your team actually is. But for those people who have found their own sanctuary of peaceful productivity by working from home, consider this a warning that Teams is about to tattle on you. According to the Microsoft 365 roadmap: 'When users connect to their organization's Wi-Fi, Teams will automatically set their work location to reflect the building they are working in.' The location of that worker will apparently update automatically upon connecting.

It's set to launch on Windows and macOS, with rollout starting at the end of this year. 'This feature will be off by default,' notes Microsoft. But 'tenant admins will decide whether to enable it and require end-users to opt-in.'

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