Teams away setting automatically switching on when not away

Anonymous
2020-07-01T17:06:37+00:00

Hi there, 

My teams status is constantly switching to "away" while I am working on my computer. This is very frustrating as my co-workers need to know when I am actually away or available.

Is there a manual override for this? It would be excellent to be able to set it as available so that my team knows they can reach my even if I am working on paper, or in this case if it has switched itself to "away".

Thanks!

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-01-28T06:46:22+00:00

    What an MS answer, here we are millions of users with the same problem and we are told to manually go through 4 steps every time we want to change our status - total lack of business acumen and agility. I am so disappointed.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-01-18T20:19:08+00:00

    Mine changes to "away" while I'm typing on Teams. We've given up on trusting anyone's status at this point. Microsoft really needs to fix it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-01-07T18:56:44+00:00

    I guess in order for Microsoft to address this, we need as many people to vote to raise it in their queue of things to work on.  You can vote here: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/908686-bug-reports/suggestions/41278342-teams-now-setting-my-status-to-away-after-10-min and here: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/19544905-incorrect-status-in-teams

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-12-30T03:05:11+00:00

    This is definitely a serious issue my team is experiencing, it's sending false information to people, pls fix it ASAP.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-12-02T02:07:08+00:00

    Microsoft does not monitor this forum.

    You are all wasting your time to complain here.

    If you want them to see your comments, you MUST use UserVoice.

    Here is a link to this issue in UserVoice.

    https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/908686-bug-reports/suggestions/41278342-teams-now-setting-my-status-to-away-after-10-min

    This issue has been reported under several threads.  To get their attention, a thread must get a lot of votes.  Then they will take it seriously and devote resources to it.

    Until then, youre pi$$ing in the wind.

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