Whether or not employers already have other workplace surveillance tools has absolutely no bearing on the fact this Microsoft "feature" is, in fact, a workplace

Whether or not employers already have other workplace surveillance tools has absolutely no bearing on the fact this Microsoft "feature" is, in fact, a workplace surveillance tool >I haven't seen anyone really object to it in large numbers. Again, whether or not people have complained about the other, existing workplace surveillance tools has absolutely no bearing the accurate description of Microsoft's new "feature" as a workplace surveillance tool. >The Microsoft stuff seemed intrusive and wrong headed, but odds are if your employer wanted to use that they are also using some much worse stuff too. Your employer's access to other, potentially more intrusive, surveillance tools also has no bearing on Microsoft's indisputable status as a surveillance tool. >I might even consider the Microsoft tools helpful as a canary in a coalmine for other bad practices that are much harder to see. This canary would already be dead if your previous statement about your employer's propensity to use other, more intrusive, surveillance tools is accurate. But in any event, even if Microsoft's new surveillance tool somehow benefited you by better informing you of your employer's devious intent, it still remains a surveillance tool, and should be accurately described as such.