Microsoft known for products like Office 365 has been working on a quick upgrade for Teams that will solve some of the most common problems with international collaboration. 

Microsoft Teams users will shortly gain an advantage from a feature that showcases each user’s present time zone, as per a new entry in the corporation’s product roadmap. 

“looking at the profile card, we can quickly find out the local time of the people with whom we collaborate,” the listing describes. 

The feature is still in progression, but it is expected to be available to all Microsoft Teams users by the end of next month. 

Even though smaller companies are least expected to use the new local time feature, it could be highly beneficial for workers at bigger companies with coworkers around the world, and for anyone who needs to travel frequently for work. 

For instance, managers must be able to quickly decide which coworkers are online and when making it simpler for them to organize a cross-team meeting or delegate a time-sensitive task. 

In the meantime, if somebody has their notifications turned on, the new update will reduce the possibility of a coworker bothering them at an inconvenient time with either an insignificant task or question. 

Several individuals have gotten into the habit of leaving messages for workmates to find when they first sign in during the day ever since the transition to remote working. Even though the benefit of this practice is evident, it has the unintended consequence of making the person feel completely overwhelmed before they’ve had an opportunity to get comfortable. 

Although the new time-zone feature does nothing at all to discourage this practice, it does reduce the possibility of inadvertently falling foul of the collaboration faux pas.