Microsoft’s workplace check-in via Wi-Fi tracks who’s in the office, and not everyone’s happy

Microsoft is rolling out a Wi‑Fi-based workplace check-in feature for Teams and Microsoft Places that can automatically mark a user as working from the office when their device connects to a configured corporate network. Microsoft states the signal is an in‑the‑moment presence indication (not stored as historical location data) and that users can control sharing settings, but privacy advocates and labor groups have raised concerns because employers enable the feature at the tenant level and employees may have limited control over enablement.