Comment on Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home
king_tronzington@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Wouldn’t your coworkers already know you’re working from home by, you know not seeing you at the office?
If your company is nationwide and has offices all over the country and you work on a distributed team where some people are on the west coast, some are central, and some are on the east coast. In this such event, none of your teammates will physically be able to tell if you are in the office. That’s what this feature is for.
So we can all continue to work from home, from a prescribed office of our employers choosing.
Ahhh the gigantic benefit of seeing a cubicle in the background of your zoom. Thanks Microsoft
We’re concerned that your home doesn’t look soul crushing enough. Please upgrade your home office by installing fluorescent tube lights and covering your walls with rough faded blue grey cloth, or we’ll need you to come into the office.
You can set a background as an image. And if you’re worried about it not being convincing enough, you can use a greenscreen
What? How would this change anything in that scenario? You’re still doing a video call if you want to talk to them.
My “office” is a network of interconnected multi-story buildings. It’s actually really convenient for me to know if I need to go meet someone in person or just use video.
Sometimes we have a room booked ahead of time and I learn they are wfh when I get to the empty room.
That’s just poor common courtesy by your coworker. If you have a physical room booked and they are WFH they need to tell you so you don’t waste your time. You shouldn’t be relying on teams status
Yeah, that’s what the meeting invite RSVP is for.
Does your RSVP have options for remote vs in person? My options are “accept”, “decline”, and “tentative.” If I want to tell someone I’m remote that day, it needs to be a separate message.
OTOH, you should hold calls and meetings in specific rooms - even if the other party is WFH, not in the open space, so…
Yeah, I only mark a meeting room if I’ll be in that meeting room, and I’ll only do that on the 2x/week when we’re expected to be in the office.
Sounds like all the meetings should just be done by video and nothing would be lost.
My co-workers are also rarely in the office, so it makes no difference. ;)
Maybe head honchos don’t go into the office all the time and aren’t aware if the lower managers are working from home potentially
afk_strats@lemmy.world 5 months ago
When I worked in an office, most of my team was in other offices across the world. But we had to be in the office for that TEAM BUILDING
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 5 months ago
> Go to the office
> All meetings are on teams because half the team works on other offices.
imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yup.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Even if the whole team is actually in the conference room…it’s one dude with a laptop who struggles to get the display working for 10 min then proceeds to just read the PowerPoint out loud.
None of this required me putting on pants or being part of traffic.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
That’s… incredibly dumb.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Even worse, it’s completely real. It was the common situation for me before corona. Also driving an entire day for a 1 hour meeting.
vinnymac@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I had to read this like six times, because it was so illogical my brain refused to comprehend.