Outlook: Working hours and location (Roadmap ID: 88822)

[David Liddle]

Greetings! I'm curious to know if 3CX is pondering how it might make use of or connect with the new feature in Microsoft 365 that allows a person to fine-tune their work habits in their calendar. Here's the text from the M365 Admin Center notification:

To help organizations manage hybrid work, users can set up their work hours and location (WHL) in Outlook on the web, specifying when they’ll be remote or in the office. They can also setup different working hours per day, or multiple work slots in a day. Additionally, if your organization uses Teams and a user sets up WHL, their location will also be shown in their Teams profile card.

The new WHL also impacts how "suggested times" work when creating a meeting event in Outlook on the web. Suggested times will take into account the WHL of the attendees before suggesting times when people are available.

I can certainly imagine scenarios in which workers would love for their calls to be handled differently on the basis of these settings. There's presently no synchronization at all of general work hours with M365, let alone the finer details of in-person and remote days. Those settings and changes are manual, and that's fine. (It's healthy for each person to be aware of the things that techno-jazz is doing on their behalf and how to stay in control of them.)