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Work location is part of a user's profile in Microsoft Teams and throughout Microsoft 365. Users can set work locations in Microsoft Teams and share visibility for each day they're in the office or working from home, making it easier to coordinate in-person meetings. By default, anyone in the organization using Teams can see, in nearly real time, locations shared by others.
Work location options in Teams
These work location options are available in Teams:
| Options | Representation |
|---|---|
| Working remotely |  |
| Working from office |  |
| Working from office, with building details such as floor number, room, or workspace |  |
Users can also set up a recurring work plan for each day of the week by setting work location and work hours in Outlook. When a user sets or changes a recurring work plan, their work location and work hours are also set automatically in Teams; changes are reflected in both apps.
Note
The tenant admin must add buildings to Microsoft Places so that users can set their locations with building details. For more information, go to Configure buildings and floors in the Microsoft Places documentation.
In Exchange hybrid environments, Places features are only available for users with a mailbox managed in Exchange Online. Users with an on-premises mailbox can't use work plans or many other Places features.
Location details in Teams
Users can learn where coworkers are working at any time from their coworkers' profile card details. Profile cards make it easy for users to quickly get an overview of coworkers' online status, next available time to meet, work hours, local time, and work location.
Also, users in a group chat can find the location details of other group chat members by opening the chat member list view.
When a user is chatting from the same location as the chat recipient, location details display on the top header area of the chat message window.
Tip
By default, all of a user's location details are visible to other users, but admins can use the ‑LocationDetailsInFreeBusy parameter to the set-mailboxconfiguration Exchange PowerShell cmdlet to control the level of location detail that is visible.
User settings to edit location sharing
Users must opt in to location sharing by manually setting up their work locations. By opting in, users enable anyone in their organization to view this information.
For more information on disabling location sharing, go to Access your Account Privacy Settings and Set your work hours and location in Outlook.
Related topics
Set your work location in Microsoft Teams
Set your work hours and location in Outlook
Show your hybrid-work location, availability to meet, work hours, and more