I have heard many friends quit companies as they could not stand using teams
I could believe that one might have a friend that is privileged enough (and petty enough) to quit over such trivialities. But “many”? Color me…skeptical.
I’ve moved to a place with it and if they’re remote workers, I could see it. It’s really bad for remote work, in the sense that it simply discourages effective chat communication patterns for teams (yes, Teams is bad for teams). I could absolutely see that getting bad enough that someone would leave, largely because the tools the company selected were wrecking communication and making everything miserable.
At the height of Covid I know a bunch of companies that started using Teams to effectively monitor their employee idle time at PCs. Teams had a much more robust admin/usage reporting system. That's when those little mouse jigglers started showing up all over Amazon to keep your machine from appearing idle.
I'm in a decent amount of engineering social channels and while I never heard someone leave specifically for that i could see it. I absolutely saw people not take jobs because of it.
Which, considering all of the layoffs and how the markets going now, I miss having that power.
I could believe that one might have a friend that is privileged enough (and petty enough) to quit over such trivialities. But “many”? Color me…skeptical.