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How are you running performance reviews without leaving Teams?
Our HR team keeps pushing us to use this separate web portal for performance reviews, but nobody actually logs into it. We basically live in Teams all day so I've been wondering - has anyone found a way to do the whole review cycle (self assessments, manager ratings, calibration) without making people leave Teams?
How do you handle employee recognition in Microsoft Teams without it feeling forced?
Hey community, Our HR team is trying to implement a point-based recognitions / incentive program (or rewards whatever you are all calling it in your companies). We are having a bit of trouble finding the right features inside MS Teams to do this. We really don't want this to live outside of Teams because you know how initiatives work in modern work: If people don't see it, they are going to forget about it in a month or two tops. Any recommendations?
Teams Planner Duplication
Does anyone know if you can duplicate Microsoft Teams Planners for onboarding tasks? I am trying to create an easily replicable Teams Planner with links to files in Sharepoint folders, for example. I want to be able to copy this planner for each new hire and have a copy of all the files and planner tasks in the new copy. Any advice or expertise would be much appreciated!
Allow muting a person only for me
Sometimes I am in a meeting where one of the persons in the meeting is actually near me in the world outside the screen. In this case the sound is a bit maddening since there is a small delay between the sound from the person and the sound through the teams interface. In these cases, I would like to mute the person only for me since I am sitting near and can hear the person fine without headphones. Right now I need to takeoff headphones when the person is talking and putting it back as the person finishes talking.Ability to reject / silence ringing calls from call queues?
We recently switched from an on-premise phone system to MS Teams phone system. We have several call queues set up using attendant routing that ring multiple people. The challenge we are facing is that when someone calls the call queue, Teams rings for everyone in the queue. The users have the option to reject the call, but when they do so, the call will stop ringing for approx 1 second and will then start ringing again. This is problematic, because if someone is actively on a call, they have no way to stop teams from ringing, which is hugely distracting. I know presence based routing is an option, but there are multiple problems with PBR. For one, it will only allow calls to ring when a user's status is available. If someone is idle/afk, their status will go to 'away' and Teams will not ring. We still want Teams calls to ring idle users because they may simply be doing something other than working on their computer. Another issue is that if a user has a meeting on their calendar that finishes early (a frequent occurrence), the Teams status will still show busy for the remainder of the scheduled time and will not allow calls to ring, even though the scheduled meeting has ended and the user is not busy. I know users can manually set their status to DND when on a call to prevent other calls from ringing, but the problem with this is users will either forget to turn DND on, or worse, they'll forget to turn DND off. Every other phone system I've used has the option to silence a ringing call, but I cannot seem to find a way to do this in Teams. Suggestions?
Microsoft can accuse you of Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
So there is cloud hosting / storage website out there called 1fichier.com and if you write that in Teams, it's fine, but if you put https:// in front of it, like https://1fichier.com then it will ne censored in Teams and you'll get an e-mail saying: Content associated with your account was detected by Microsoft as violating our terms and policy or code of conduct. The details are as follows: • Service or product used: Microsoft Teams • Policy violated: Reference to Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Content • Actions taken: We have removed the content in violation. This is a pretty serious accusation to throw around like this, considering this is an obvious "false positive".
