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
    2021-01-07T18:44:01+00:00

    We have this issue too and when your leaders are looking for you, in a remote environment, appearing to be off-task isn't good. I find that even if I am in PowerApps building things it shows me as away.....this has to be fixed. I am so over explaining that I was at my laptop the whole time.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-12-30T18:27:33+00:00

    This happens when viewing a file in Teams, I was reading it and saw it go to away.

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  3. 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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  4. Anonymous
    2020-12-29T22:59:45+00:00

    This is a design flaw on Microsoft's part. It needs to be fixed given that Teams is used primarily by corporations and constantly switching to "away" when using other apps is inaccurate & misleading and can cause issues with management. What is the timeline for Microsoft to fix this? It's a bug, not a feature.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-12-29T21:56:47+00:00

    Classic Microsoft. Months go by with dozens of people reporting the issue, and still no fix or real response.

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