Office Locations

The Locations view lets you find colleagues by their physical office. Particularly useful in multi-office or globally distributed organisations. Click the Locations tab in the sidebar to switch to this view.


Locations grid

The view opens as a grid of location cards. Each card displays:

  • Office banner photo (if your admin uploaded one)
  • Office name
  • City and country
  • Headquarters indicator (if the location is marked as HQ)
  • Member count and online-now count
  • Local timezone (if configured)

Locations sort headquarters first, then alphabetically.


Location detail pages

Click any location card to open its detail page — a dedicated full-page view for that office.

What you’ll see:

  • Hero banner featuring the office photo, name, accent colour, and headquarters badge
  • Address with optional Google Maps / Bing Maps link
  • Phone number for the office (if configured)
  • Office manager card (if assigned by an admin)
  • A member roster with the same search and view options as the main directory
  • Optional local time clock displaying the current time at this office

The member roster behaves the same as the main directory — search, filter, multi-select for bulk actions, and click any person to open their detail panel.

Use the breadcrumb at the top to navigate back to the locations grid.


Where locations come from

Locations are managed by your admin in Settings → Manage Locations. The admin can:

  • Import directly from Microsoft Entra ID with one click — every distinct officeLocation value in your tenant becomes a location row
  • Add or rename offices manually
  • Set address, postcode, country, phone, manager for each office
  • Upload an office photo or banner
  • Mark a location as Headquarters
  • Set the IANA timezone (e.g. Europe/London, America/New_York) — required for the optional “show local time per person” feature
  • Choose an accent colour for the detail page hero
  • Mark a location hidden to remove it from the grid without deleting it

See Managing Locations for the admin walkthrough.


Local time per person (optional)

If your admin has enabled Settings → Features → Show local time per person, each colleague’s card and detail panel will display a tiny clock with their current local time, derived from their office’s IANA timezone.

  • The clock ticks once per minute via a single shared timer (no performance hit).
  • Colleagues whose office has no timezone set are simply skipped — no clock shown.

Privacy

  • A colleague whose officeLocation in Microsoft Entra ID doesn’t match any configured location still appears in search, the directory, and the org chart — they’re just not grouped under a tile.
  • For remote / home-based colleagues, admins typically create a “Remote” location entry.