A team in our company has spent a few weeks building an application where we would pick what days we are remote and where we are going to work.

Now today, manager decided that on top of regularly updating that remote schedule we’d also have to ANNOUNCE in a channel on Teams that we’re remote on that day………. Supposedly for good moods and work life, this is such a waste of time I can’t even….

I should complete that the application let’s you see if anyone in the company is remote and where they can be found 🙄

The way I see it, no one will ever even look at that.

If I text you on slack I don't care where you're sitting, same for email or calls... The only person that might look at the site is the manager if he wants to decide if they need to setup an online meeting or if physical is fine, and even then they are too lazy to do that and ask you to notify? Waste of a system from start to finish

It’s actually used, for HR and well for checking if someone from another team is on site, there is also some feature that lets you see which parts of a site are filled and which aren’t, we have a policy of “flex office” so literally anyone can sit at any desk (except the meeting rooms ofc). The app itself is useful I just don’t get the redundancy of having to announce yourself every time you are remote in a Teams channel…? And it gets even worst our remote days are mostly similar all the time, so it’s not even like it’s for warning your fellow colleagues that you’re going to be remote exceptionally

sounds like something that could be automated..