Prevent employee name from being displayed in Workplace
While the feature to search for employees in Workplace and being able to locate them on a floor plan is nice, it can also lead to issues for organizations that need to honor employee privacy. Hypothetically, an employee can locate and stalk another employee by searching and booking a desk near them without the other employee knowing.
My suggestion is to introduce some mechanism to anonymize this either by having it apply globally as an application parameter or by creating a field called em.ispublic to control it on an employee by employee basis. Employee's have it defaulted to Yes and will be displayed in Workplace unless set to No. If it's set to No, perhaps just indicate that the space is booked.
Mel Wong
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Tina
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This use case just came up for one of our clients. I like the idea of doing it employee by employee, but I also like the idea of making it by booking - similar to how you would create a calendar invite in outlook. You can set your meeting invite to show as private (e.g. doctor's visits, closed conversations, etc.) but you can set other invites as public (e.g. team meetings).
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Armando Alvarado
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When using the AbEssentialFacility:SelfServiceSearch parameter as disabled, the employees are currently not visible when booking Workspaces. Since this is an Always On or Always Off feature, we’d like to request an enhancement so that individual users can choose to do their bookings as private/anonymous and other users cannot see what room they’ve booked but can see all other non-private user bookings.
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Greg Landgraf
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the current application parameter - which disables Search People and Places as well as does not show employee names in hoteling - is too restrictive; the functions need to be separated.
1. Search People and Places - allow search for rooms, but dont show employee in results
2. hoteling - dont allow searching for employee; when clicking a booked room, dont show employee details in the popup;