Are all groups now on Teams? Is Zoom
Now becoming disabled ? When will it be required to use Teams? I heard in a meeting that they are starting Teams up mandatory for SLOD first on 10/1 is this true?
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Dan the man was trying to bypass risk assessments to get this implemented data governance and privacy and compliance all of it.
We received the mail.
I miss slack...
@OP The teams will arrive very soon. The new era of productivity, integration , surveillance , communication coming soon...your wait will be over...
@xm to be honest because of a legal matter that’s all I will say.
I'm in P&C IT and we've been using Teams for a while. I can live with Teams for video calls. It's not as good as Zoom by any stretch, and is in fact much, much worse. The video/screen share quality is terrible. But Teams is "okay," and if it saves the company millions of dollars per year in licensing costs since we already have Teams "included" in our Microsoft contract, I can understand that and adapt. It's an objectively worse app, but it gets the job done.
Losing Slack, however, is a different story. That is a massive mistake. There are so many channels, conversation histories, integrations/automations, and more built into Slack that losing it will be devastating for productivity and morale.
How many times have we thought, "Oh, there was a group thread about this question a few weeks ago, let me go find it and see what the answer was"? That's gone.
How many times have frustrating situations been made easier to handle by a funny reaction or giphy response? Gone.
How many times have we created one-off Slack channels for a specific effort/conversation? Gone. Now you'll need EMG approval to create the Teams equivalent of "channels."
Dan has no idea just how bad of a productivity and morale hit that will be. All he knows is that it's going to save the company some money and will allow the company to track employees' conversations and time more.
Teams for messaging is horrific compared to Slack. I'm not exaggerating. It's not one of those "Meh, it's not as good, but it works" situations. We're going to lose conversation history, channels with invaluable information, integrations with other apps/platforms, and even those small morale boosts like custom emojis/reactions. What we get instead is a sterile, highly-monitored, tu-d of a Microsoft app.
I'd never thought I'd wish for Amala back, but here we are.
@OP For Curiosity why do you care? BTW - Yes. Soon we all will have it....
SLOD here, haven’t heard anything about Teams.
Still using Lync. Standing my ground!
Does anyone know when Teams will be fully enabled
Zoom i guess. Whats teams??
I still use Zoom.