Saturday 24/January/2026 – 04:49 PM
Microsoft has recently been working on several updates to its Teams communication app, but it appears the company is slowing down development of one feature likely because it’s a bit controversial.
Microsoft postpones the launch of the employee location tracking feature
According to Times Now News, Microsoft updated the public roadmap for Microsoft 365 to postpone the release of a feature that would have allowed an employer to know the location of its employee.
This feature would have allowed the Teams application to discover the identity of the Wi-Fi network to which the employee was connected, and then update his work location to reflect that, according to a report by Forbes magazine, which I reviewed.
This means that, for example, if an employee is connected to the enterprise network Building123_WiFi, their work location will appear on Teams and Outlook as Building 123.
The downside to this was that if an employee was late for work, did some work from home, or used any of the Teams and Outlook applications from any network that was not affiliated with their organization, the employer would know about it.
It is clear that this matter did not please employees who work in a hybrid system or who do not accept this type of privacy violation.
While Microsoft appears to be trying to find a balance by disabling this location tracking feature, requiring IT admins to enable it, and then allowing end users to opt in, this doesn’t offer a real solution. The entire process collapses if an organization enforces location tracking as a mandatory policy, depriving its employees of any means of objection.
Although Teams’ location tracking feature was scheduled for a general release on Windows and Mac in January, the feature was delayed to February, and then delayed again to March.
