Microsoft was embroiled in an issue final 12 months once they unveiled their new Productivity Score characteristic, a component of their new Microsoft Workplace Analytics device, which might assign a quantity to how effectively an worker was partaking with their work and colleagues utilizing digital communication, with many calling the micro-managing surveillance dystopian.
Microsoft responded to the criticisms by anonymising the information, and making different adjustments, however the fact is that the information remains to be being collected – it’s merely now not being packaged up as neatly for using managers.
It seems Microsoft Teams nonetheless collects extraordinarily detailed per-user utilization information, in accordance with ZDNet, and that this information stays out there to managers.
Here is a small pattern:
The customized information remains to be out there to these with the Microsoft Teams Administrator position, and might simply be used to see which staff are most and least engaged in every channel for instance.
The concern, after all, is that these analytics doesn’t really let you know how productive an worker is, merely how a lot they’re utilizing a product and that such micro-surveillance shouldn’t be good for the well being of staff and firms.
With extra staff now working from residence, and Microsoft intent to make Teams the centre of our workday workflow, it appears many extra of us might want to get used to working with the boss respiration over your shoulder.
