Users “may” hate?
Many also do not care, unfortunately.
Let’s not get that Lemmy echo chamber vibe where a few dozen of us agree that millions of Windows users don’t exist.
Yeah, the vast majority of people barely even know how to use a web browser. They won’t care about (or even notice) this change.
It’s not like people have a choice lol what are you going to do find a company using slack
You definitely could.
You could also ask your IT folks to switch. If enough of them ask, they might.
If you’re the IT folks, the question is forwarded to leadership. If enough of you ask, they might.
inb4 cynical/bad faith angle of “Leadership literally never listens to anyone under them ever.”
At a small or medium sized company yes, at a big company no chance lol especially one which already has a big contract with Microsoft.
Controversial opinion but this is perfectly fine to enable in an enterprise environment. If you’re being paid to work and you’re lucky enough to be trusted to work from home its fine to force employees to have location services enabled. Not like there isnt a million other ways to see where they are.
It’s irrevelant where somebody is, as long as the assigned work is completed. Are you an insecure middle manager by chance?
i’m fine with company property having tracking, but as long as i’m doing my job i don’t see why my employer needs to know were i am. and that’s despite me preferring to work on location.
I work in a big office, I want to know if the person is in office, working from home or offsite somewhere. This feature will automatically update the status to give that info. I dont see how its hard to understand why that is a useful feature. Also I said enterprise environment its assumed these are company devices.
Because working from home doesn’t really mean you have to be in your house as long as you’re working. Just like you don’t have to actually eat on your lunch break. If you can’t trust me then why am I still working for you?
If possible: grab a router and install OpenWRT onto it, and turn it into a wireless bridge. Use the router to connect to the office WiFi, and have a wired connection to your laptop. Turn off the laptop’s wifi for good measure.
Alternatively, if work provides hard lines, bring your own router and turn off WiFi to provide a protected hardline.
There are many ways to prevent the computer from realizing what network you are on.
At work ?
I have seen very tiny router/bridges, clear down to an Ethernet dongle with a +5v USB power feed. Quite unobtrusive.
