That reports that Online magazine ZDNet. The “Productivity Score” is a controversial tool for measuring productivity in companies.
Much criticism – and understood nothing?
According to Microsoft, detailed data on the use of M365 applications by employees should primarily be provided, which made many experts prick up their ears when the tool was presented.
The tool showed the use of Microsoft 365 applications by individual employees, so it could monitor who opened an application like Outlook or Teams, when it was active, and so on. After the criticism of the tool was reported in the media, Microsoft discontinued the tool for the time being, but is now bringing it back with comprehensive changes. Microsoft is now making another attempt to give managers a tool for measuring user productivity. However, the tool is now called “Adoption Score”, which controversial Dashboard Productivity Score ablst. The group wants to make it clear that it is not about the productivity of the users, but about the adoption rate of the applications. Basically, however, it is still about the same topic for administration in the company – you can see when and which applications are used by employees.
What Microsoft changed a year ago: User-level information is pseudonymised by default. But that doesn’t mean that administrators can’t switch back to reports with personal information – which also means that employee monitoring is conceivable.
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