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Teams Walkie Talkie and frontline workflows

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Teams Walkie Talkie and frontline workflows

Teams Walkie Talkie provides push-to-talk for frontline workers on Wi-Fi or cellular — alongside Shifts and Tasks for shift-based work.

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Walkie Talkie

Use cases:

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Shifts

For frontline workers, Shifts is often the most-used Teams feature — schedule visibility on mobile is a daily need.

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Tasks by Planner

Used heavily in retail for store opening / closing checklists, compliance tasks, marketing rollouts.

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Frontline-tailored Teams layout

Frontline workers get a simplified Teams app layout via Intune configuration and Teams policies:

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Microsoft 365 F SKUs

Frontline workers are licensed via Microsoft 365 F1 or F3 plans — substantially cheaper than knowledge-worker plans. Each F SKU includes the frontline-tailored Teams experience plus appropriately scoped Outlook, OneDriv…

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Shared device sign-in

For frontline scenarios where devices are shared across shifts:

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Communications with HQ

For two-way communication between corporate and frontline:

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