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I really like the location feature in 2016 Business Skype. It know when I move between my two facilities at work and it also remembers my home location. This should be a feature in Microsoft Teams.

Dale

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  • Kim Allen commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, I completely agree with Dale. Our organization is transitioning to an open/shared office space. The location feature allows my colleagues to know where they can locate me...in the café, in a conference room, off site, etc. As a mobile workforce, this feature is absolutely essential. Please, please, please add it to Teams.
    Thanks,
    Kim Allen

  • Matt Bender commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    As others have mentioned, this is a key feature that is holding us back from migrating all users from SfB to Teams. Being able to communicate to all users where you are physically located makes everyone more efficient. Example - can I get up and walk to someone's office to have a face to face conversation, or are they at a different office/home today?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Tim Jacks & Scott Regnier’s comments below are spot on. We were recently forced to migrate to MS Teams from Skype for Business and immediately were at a disadvantage. Please mirror the location functionality we had in Skype.

  • Tim Jacks commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We use the Skype location feature as part of our company remote working policy, so that we know when a colleague is working at home. As users only have to set the location once in Skype, for each location, this feature greatly helps reduce the burden on employees to remember to set the location every time they work from home, and so everyone adheres to the policy with very few exceptions. Teams is fantastic, but the loss of this feature will be a step backwards for us in how we work together.

  • Scott Regnier commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is important information that helps our users know where we are, in office or working from home. They avoid stopping over to our office to ask for help if they see we're someplace esle. Having it automatically show base on our IP address worked nicely. This definitely needs to be added.

  • Scott Leach commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    In my Company we have days we are remote, days we are in different offices, etc. having this allows me to know if i need to reach my team by cell phone or by extension if we need an external customer call.

  • Koen De Bruyn commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Let us be clear: "Share Location" is already available in TEAMS (sharing your location once), this vote is about "Share LIVE Location" which means that your location will be shared permanently as long as you want and with whom you want it.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is what we are looking for in TEAMS 'Set Your Location' as found in Business Skype.

  • M Tayal commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    share location in chat just implemented; how can we validate details about this feature, please suggest link

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This a different feature request than the share location in chat just implemented.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    That's needed, and should be possible to implement the same as SfB like status message.

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