This seems like surveillance disguised as a mostly useless feature. If you are in the office and logging into a video call, you’re probably using the hardware in a conference room and not your own laptop. That hardware will already display the room you are calling from to everyone on the call.

The only reason for this feature is to tattle on people who aren’t where they say they are.

Not for the average spineless middle manager. This puts the data in their hands without having to get any approval from anyone in IT