Microsoft Teams update will stop you annoying your colleagues

Microsoft Teams update will stop y'all annoying your colleagues

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Microsoft is working on a simple update for Teams that should assist address common problems with international collaboration.

According to a new entry in the company's production roadmap, Microsoft Teams users will shortly benefit from a facility that highlights each users' electric current time-zone.

"You tin hands find out the local time of the people you lot collaborate with by checking the profile menu," the listing explains.

The characteristic is yet currently under development, but should roll out to all Microsoft Teams users by the end of Jan, 2022.

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Although pocket-size businesses are less likely to make use of the new local fourth dimension feature, it could prove extremely helpful for employees at larger enterprises with colleagues scattered across the earth, or for anyone who travels regularly for piece of work.

For case, the ability to speedily check which colleagues are online and when should get in easier for managers to schedule a cross-team coming together or determine to whom to delegate a fourth dimension-sensitive job.

If someone has their notifications turned on, meanwhile, the new feature will minimize the chances of a colleague agonizing them at an inopportune fourth dimension with an unimportant job or query.

Since the transition to remote working, many people have also developed the habit of leaving messages for co-workers to discover when they outset log on in the morning. Although the utility of this practise is obvious, it has the event of making the person feel bombarded before they've had a chance to get their feet nether the desk.

While the new time-zone feature does nil to disincentivize this practice, the likelihood of accidentally falling foul of the collaboration fake pas is lessened.

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