Microsoft has changed a controversial Teams Wi-Fi location feature — but won’t say why

Microsoft has seemingly updated a controversial feature to its Teams collaboration and messaging service, but won’t say what was updated or why.

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.

Here’s a description of the feature, numbered 488800, as it read on Microsoft’s 365 Roadmap website back in October:

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

What the Teams location tracking could do

And how it works

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