Microsoft Groups is getting a brand new characteristic your boss will love (and you will not)

Everybody has these days at work once they’d reasonably be left alone to focus with out pointless distractions or their boss bothering them. Nonetheless, it appears Microsoft has determined to make it tougher so that you can have a peaceable day within the workplace, and it is all due to an upcoming replace to Microsoft Teams.

In its Microsoft 365 Roadmap, the tech large has revealed that it’s engaged on a brand new characteristic for Microsoft Groups that can mechanically replace your location in Groups everytime you hook up with your group’s Wi-Fi.

“When customers hook up with their group’s Wi-Fi, Groups will quickly be capable to mechanically replace their work location to mirror the constructing they’re working from,” Microsoft explains in its roadmap.

So which means if co-workers are looking for one another, it ought to make it a lot simpler, however on the flip aspect, in the event you’re making an attempt to cover in a nook within the workplace sooner or later to get some work carried out with out distractions, that sounds prefer it’s about to turn out to be a lot tougher.

The characteristic won’t be enabled by default

It is nonetheless in growth, and will launch earlier than the top of the 12 months

Fortunately, the 2 silver linings of this characteristic are that it is not enabled by default, so when it launches, your group will really must resolve to allow it, and it additionally requires end-users to decide in. That means, in the event you do not consent to it, your location will not be tracked once you’re linked to your organization’s Wi-Fi.

In keeping with its roadmap, Microsoft lists the characteristic as “in growth” with a rollout begin date of December 2025, that means corporations might begin utilizing it by the top of the 12 months. The characteristic will solely be out there on desktop and Mac, so you will not have to fret about your organization monitoring you from the Groups app in your telephone.

Microsoft additionally says the characteristic will probably be out there worldwide, however past all the pieces I’ve talked about, it would not go into a lot element about precisely how the characteristic will work or look on Groups, or the benefits or disadvantages it might have for corporations.

This is not the primary Microsoft Groups characteristic to boost eyebrows. Earlier this 12 months, Microsoft partnered with Mercedes-Benz to combine its Conferences for Groups app into the 2026 Mercedes-Benz CLA, making it simpler to attend work conferences whilst you’re driving — one thing I am unsure many individuals are desperate to do.