What Your Boss Can TRACK About YOU with Microsoft Teams

Who the hell has time to momtior folks all day?

Policies are only written to use against someone that doesn't drink the jello of a corporation or agency's unethical behavior. These days if someone rocks the boat of illegal or unethical activity, then they can fit any activity to jjustify a whistblower which is not appreciated but viewed as trouble maker that will ruin their image. Its all about saving face. That's why they usually let execs resign and not press illegal charges.... To avoid audits and public awareness.

Who tracks the boss?

I hate that

Well, I'm fuc....

I have a work laptop with Teams and Outlook. I used my employer's credentials to go to Microsoft's website and download Teams to my personal desktop. Sometimes Teams is active on my personal desktop PC during work hours. One day, I went to a NSFW while Teams was active on my personal desktop. Could my employer find out that I visited that website? My personal desktop is not networked to my work laptop or anything.

Time to call random people and leave the teams call going for 8 hrs. No one hang up just leave it one for 8 hrs a day

This is not about the employees.. it's about the app..

If they want your info theyll just install a key tracker and can see word for word what you type.

Hi Leila, is there a way/possibility where you can add work colleagues to your Teams group but with view rights only? My understanding is that guests can be added and have view rights to the same documents but not edit. If you add anyone within your own organization to your Teams group, they are automatically added as a member and have view and edit rights.

What if you had a situation when within the same organization, you have different departments with different functions? It would be great if I could add members on my group, for the purpose of visibility/(view only rights). Our team works on certain projects/task where the other department finds our progress as important and very relevant. But I would not want anyone of them to be able to work/edit the task tracker dashboard.

is there an option, within the setting that would allow for this scenario.

Hi Leila - your video's are great! I need help with audio stuttering when presenting in Teams. I present monthly hybrid meetings and the people on Teams cannot hear the meeting properly. The wifi signal is fast enough but I don't know why the audio is so bad. Do you have a video on this I can use ? thank you!

My boss doesn't have time to look at this stuff, lol; this feels like a lot of work in addition to everything that people must be doing...

How can i sleep til 10am (sometimes) whilst staying active.......from say 8.30 (own meeting) show busy...

6 minutes of my life gone.

She’s very easy on the eyes.

Please, can someone explain me:
I received invitation from my business partner to join their Teams group. And there was some “agreement” with permissions requested that I needed to agree before the connection is done.
I just worry, if they will have access to my email and other Microsoft files on my computer???

They military and government can and does track everything. Technology has made it very easy to spy on everyone.

It's not necessarily the boss tracking their employees but the IT team has the ability to track the productivity of each employee. The HR department in collaboration with the IT department generally goes through this data to improve productivity and efficiency of employees. They offer opportunities to improve without telling you they have seen someone being slacked.

Cool nice to know, but I don't open my Teams App when I work all the time. Our company does not have such rule, that we must open it ;)

Yeah, you’re work and personal email and messaging services are being monitored. Anything that goes through the company network is watched. One of my former coworkers sent an encrypted email to somebody at his former employer. He was walked out of the building.
Right before the pandemic, my employer introduced a new badging system where you had to swipe your badge to get in and out of the office. My naïve coworker wondered if we were being tracked. Of course you’re being tracked. Upper management was trying to see who was coming in late and who was leaving early and who was taking three hour lunches. They was a huge layoff right after the pandemic struck.

thanks

Great info, however, we be so busy with regular work, analyzing Teams usage is probably not the best use of anyone's time. I suppose it all depends on the type of work, required deliverables, etc.

Micro managing. If they had joysticks to plug into our backs to control us, they would. When the robots come, they'll have everything they want.

This is super useful thanks. I was worried it might show individual chats. Although looking at what reports can be run, I'd say its only really useful if somebody is doing nothing at all. If you work in a fast-paced environment and you can see the individual's achievements through project goals, I don't expect managers would find this all that enlightening unless there was very little activity. But really good to see thanks!

yo i get the job done why does this matter ?

What manager has time to analyze thud data and to develop actions to change this. And if they would do all of the above how is this going to impact people's health and company productivity. Micromanaging people just show the weakness of a manager. Microsoft you should be ashamed about creating tools to track people. Ashamed

Both our accounts spend too much time on talking thru Teams, they cannot even do the job on time when the boss marks "priority"

I do email first, if no answer, l msg them that l sent you email please check. Emails is the best way to track everything you have done.

It doesn't mean positive relation with how much you get your work done. Instead, it means you don't know how to get your job done, you have to get help most of the time, or, you are wasting time on chatting.

Bodyshot:

I agree with you on meetings not being productive in general!

However, I do disagree that phone calls are not a productive means of transference of data and necessary facilitating of end point resolution.

The personal computing device that most people today call a phone a highly productive tool!

Via the web and via phone!

Thanks for the insight!

As an Administrator and a boss myself, this isn't for use by a "boss" but admin-only features hence being in/only accessible in the Admin center that bosses don't have access to. Perhaps more useful in investigating incidents or usage for other reasons related to the subscription, not for tracking/managing emplpyees' "usage" of any kind.

What about finding out if employees are engaging in misconduct behaviors on Teams app (bullying, harassment, racism, etc)? Is there a way to find out?

essentially ntohing that anyone gives a hoot.

Great video. Thank you

Looks like it is very hard for your boss to track you.

You got a Secret MASON!

Hi I have one question, how I can recover a message sent via Team by my manager, she disrespectful me, now we are in jury. How can recover this message eliminated by her? It's quite important for me . Thank you'all!!

....what would be interesting to know is, if you are using your own device ( laptop, tablet, pc, etc) as your tool for work as well,.... if they can view what you do on your private side...I was recommended to use a different device for private matters...the issue is that they have tracked you IP already.....many companies want to save in costs, so they are happy to install the necessary software in your own device..and if there are IT issues, depending what your " title" is, they may support you or not..🤔

Would you like a copy of my DNA as well? How about my biometrics? Location? How about my time of the month? Lol somthn not right

Yeah. Especially when you didn't know you were in a team and then they use your phone call against you to block you from everything. Even the fact that you were in a Microsoft team group. How racist

FUD. No boss actually has access to that. IT admins do.

Are you one of those people who had that one "Bill Gates as Hitler" wallpaper with an army behind him? And no, that's not an evocation of Godwin's Law, every anti-MS person I knew had that wallpaper.

This is so valuable to know. So if the organization can see when IT is helping you and can see the IP address it’s coming from.

What a sensationalized headline that encourages you to click on this video. No productivity manager/supervisor would be utilizing Teams to track down someone's daily work and performance. There are real tools and applications out there to do that not MS Teams 😂😂😂

I don't care about all who rushed here to tell that their very enlightened bosses focus on the objectives and outcomes. The fact that this software has been developed already tells a lot about today's companies.

MS teams offer micro management at a glorified level!

haha privacy is dead these days XD

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