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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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Seven Zhou MSFT -
Your above "workaround" is incredibly irresponsible - For MS Teams to even consider laying this very simple coded App "Fix" on the user is a Freshman's move. Do your jobs, people.
Having the same issue. Not a good thing when your boss likes to check on his reports Teams status and sees you’re “away” when you’re really not. I am on Windows 7 64 bit
Yes- our team is having these issues as well, and its a serious detriment to relationships with leadership. We need accuracy in this space, especially because, up until a few weeks ago, we had it. Is there an update we can reverse to ditch this??
Agreed! supervisors and other coworkers use teams to see if you are working and how long you haven't been, its happened to me. received a call "why aren't you working you should be at your computer" I tried to explain I was but she said TEAMS tells me how long you have been away and its been for hour and 45 minutes. So now it seems trust is lost - thanks TEAMS, she thinks I am cheating the company now and doesn't trust us working from home, at lease that it how it feels.
please FIX THIS!! and TELL people you had a issue and you are Fixing. this as you can see from the thread has been happening for a very long time - TOO Long! its the end of September now and it is STILL happening even at the office, just now working on computer and it marks me as away. If the computer goes idle then fine mark me away - but just because you are not in teams or have it minimized, yet still using the computer, that should not set the status as away.
Unacceptable! FIX IT!
your uservoice doesn't seem to work. go to your link https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/ do a search of "away status" and it shows over 2600 entries and how many votes on each entry? shouldn't this really should be fixed by now? please respond to at least let us know you are working on it - or not.
Does anyone know if there is a planned fix for this? My company has just recently required us to start using teams, and this is really detrimental to leadership relationships, as it looks like I'm away constantly, even though I am here working.
I've telecommuted for years, and used two or three different messaging systems, and none of them have ever had an issue like this around status.
Having the same issue. Not a good thing when your boss likes to check on his reports Teams status and sees you’re “away” when you’re really not. I am on Windows 7 64 bit