Microsoft’s Teams location tracking lines up with RTO mandate

In October, I reported on a new and controversial feature shipping to Microsoft Teams, which automatically updates a user’s location when they connect their device to an office Wi-Fi network. At the time, Microsoft described the feature, tagged 488800 in the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, as follows: “When users connect to their organization’s Wi-Fi, Teams will automatically set their work location to reflect the building they are working in.”

However, the company quietly changed how the feature works,…