Speaking as someone on the IT side (albeit as a sysadmin, not help desk), it’s because we don’t trust you. We’ve been burned enough times by believing a user that says that of course they’ve already rebooted/run the usual command/updated recently. We want to verify that this is true. We also want to see if there are any error messages or other unexpected behaviour that you immediately dismissed and failed to mention.
The organization will configure a list of Wi-Fi SSIDs. When your device connects to one of those, the Teams location would be updated to “in the office”.
That’s it. No complex triangulation, no pinpoint locating. Just “are you connected to the office network or not”.
Also, if you don’t want to be tracked in this way, just don’t participate. If your organization sets a policy to opt you in automatically, click the option to opt out. If they give the offer to opt in, just don’t.
I know it’s hip to hate on Microsoft, but we should at least discuss things based on the truth, not wild assumptions and misinformation.
Never pay for AI, I don't. Maybe 30 dollars a year for tools I can't do without, but take everything for free.
Maybe you were referring to non-AI tools, though the mention of that here would be unusual, so the most likely reading of this is that you were saying something like “I don’t pay for AI, except when I do”.
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