Microsoft tweaks Teams and Viva to help bridge gap between frontline workers and their managers, among other things As the 1 February general availability of its Cloud for Retail nears, Microsoft today tweaked its Teams and Viva platforms and published a report highlighting the challenges it believes frontline workers face. Microsoft's definition of a frontline worker is, according to Jared Spataro (the company's CVP for Modern Work), " …
I am Teams, and all I want is to go back in time and accidentally try to sleep with my mother so I can prevent her getting together with my father and then I'll fade from that photograph forever* and I'll never have been born and then this nightmare of my existence will never have happened.
(*although the photograph will still inexplicably be identical in all other respects because something something macguffin)
I'd like it to automatically 'focus' my colleagues' screen shares and to switch to full screen (a proper full screen) when one starts. I'd also like the searching facility not to be so damn useless (when you click on a found message you just get taken to the convo, not the message itself). I'd also like it to be easier to insert a code snippet instead of having to go through two or three obscure menus.
Actually, I think many bosses would insist that it was technically possible for us to get someone else to do the work – otherwise, how would they avoid the inevitable IR35 problems that would ensue from insisting that we were "contractors" and avoiding paying employer's NI and giving us holiday rights?
Jitsi Meet server on Linux: check
Firefox browser: check.
Done.
Anything else I can help with?
:)
A former employer had Slack for the techs, and Teams for everybody else. Inevitably the techs had to use both.
As one of those techs, I can tell you that I disliked Slack more than I dislike Teams.
None of these types of platforms have any distinguishing features. They are all s**t in their own ways
In both, dealing with your previous chats in a PITA, at least Slack you had true full screen. In Teams - no chance.
In fact Teams lack of fullscreen is the biggest issue on a laptop. Ordinarily, I'd have a 27" QHD, so I wouldn't care much. Travelling on small XPS, a presentation is like a postage stamp in comparison.
Fix that, I'll be happy.
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