Microsoft Teams update will eliminate one of the most common remote working problems
Microsoft Teams will help you keep notifications in check
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Microsoftis working on a new feature forcollaboration platformTeams that should help address a commonremote workingproblem.
According to anew postin the company’s product roadmap,Microsoft Teamswill soon afford users tighter control over their activity feed notifications.
“Users will be able to change the type of notification that appears in the activity feed. Right click on the feed item, and you will be able to turn on/off all reactions and select the apps you would like to get notifications from,” explained Microsoft.
The new feature is currently under development, but is set to roll on in preview later this month and go live for all users in December.
Microsoft Teams notifications
Since the start of the pandemic, plenty has been said about the effects of remote working on business culture and mental health.
Some remote workers have said they feel pressured to make themselves available outside of traditional hours, making it difficult to strike an effective work-life balance.
Others, meanwhile, have been buried in a storm of notifications as a result of the switch to digital forms of communication (whether viaemail, text chat orvideo conference). And this problem is only aggravated by the rising number of third-party integrations for platforms like Teams.
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By allowing users to specify which types of alerts they receive, the latest Teams update should help alleviate (if not eliminate) the kinds of problems that have cropped up as a result of the new reliance on digital collaboration tools and onlineproductivity software.
Notification customization will also synergize with another feature that’s also under development, which will allow Teams users toswitch off notifications during meetings. As per a separate roadmap entry, users will be able to turn off notifications during all meetings, or on a per meeting basis.
Clearly, Microsoft is aware of the damaging effects of notification storms on both productivity and wellbeing. And these latest Teams updates should at least go some way to correcting the issue.
Joel Khalili is the News and Features Editor at TechRadar Pro, covering cybersecurity, data privacy, cloud, AI, blockchain, internet infrastructure, 5G, data storage and computing. He’s responsible for curating our news content, as well as commissioning and producing features on the technologies that are transforming the way the world does business.
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