People working from home and using MS Teams - status changes to 'Away' very quickly...

[Deleted member 651465]

In my experience, nobody cares about the status indicator. I had someone messaging me for 2 weeks even though my status was set to “Out of office”.

For some reason he never bothered trying to email me, or he’d have seen that I was on annual leave via the auto-response.

I tend to open Teams on my phone periodically if I’m out and about though, so I can check messages etc.

 

[BUDFORCE]

In my experience, nobody cares about the status indicator. I had someone messaging me for 2 weeks even though my status was set to “Out of office”.
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Unfortunately my boss is a bit of an *******, and watches it, she's even told as as such.

Edit: remove "a bit of"

 

[the-evaluator]

As a way of monitoring employees it's about as inefficient as it comes. It's a very crude way of doing it too.

 

[BUDFORCE]

As a way of monitoring employees it's about as inefficient as it comes. It's a very crude way of doing it too.

Indeed, pretty much sums up the company I work for

 

[the-evaluator]

I'd love to have enough free time as your manager evidently has so that I can actively pay attention to the Teams status of my team.

 

[lurkio]

How are people running all these random exes on corporate machines

You can rename the exe anything you want, seems to work fine

 

[Garp]

Resurrecting this one from last month..

https://portal.office.com/adminportal/home?ref=MessageCenter&id=MC223792

"Your end users will be able to define how long they want a presence state to remain active. This Teams setting overrides other events like calendar meetings or calls.
This feature is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68726.
We will begin the rollout at end of October and expect it to be complete by mid-November."

 

[bazzabear]

Bring any window to the front which can be tabbed through - outlook, Word, etc. Eraser on tab key. Notebook on eraser. Go for poo without worrying that it looks like you're skiving.

Job done. (Or not done, to be more accurate.)